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Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Carly Vivian is a career reinvention strategist who spent 30 years at the table when Fortune 50 organizations made their biggest calls - mergers, transformations, and leadership transitions at a combined $100B scale. She now helps senior executives, post-exit founders, and athletes leaving sport decode what built their First Act and architect a deliberate Second Act. Her work runs on the Discover, Design, Develop methodology, which also anchors her book in progress, Lightning Strikes Twice. Alongside the platform she keeps a separate, referral-based executive coaching practice.
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Carly Vivian argues that senior leaders, especially women, should treat career transitions not as a job search but as a design problem, building forward from evidence of past strengths rather than fear. The post encourages an intentional, engineered approach to a "Second Act" by decoding what actually worked in one's career and naming the conditions where judgment and energy thrived.
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Summary
Carly Vivian argues that senior leaders, especially women, should treat career transitions not as a job search but as a design problem, building forward from evidence of past strengths rather than fear. The post encourages an intentional, engineered approach to a "Second Act" by decoding what actually worked in one's career and naming the conditions where judgment and energy thrived.
Tags
career-transition · second-act · leadership · career-design · senior-leaders · women-in-leadership · self-reflection
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.95) · Second Act (concept, 0.9) · First Act (concept, 0.8) · career design (concept, 0.85) · Gilles Argivier (person, 0.7) · Terry Scott Jones (person, 0.7) · Essowe Abalo (person, 0.65) · Kam Hossieny (person, 0.65) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.8)
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framework · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 27 Jul 2026