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Carly Vivian
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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Who Invited Her
Carly Vivian recounts a defining moment at a Fortune 50 board briefing where she was dismissed by a CEO, responding with composure built from ten years of unseen professional work. She reframes the concept of "getting lucky" as a decodable recipe of accumulated skill, pattern recognition, and resilience that women can identify and carry into their next career chapter.
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Summary
Carly Vivian recounts a defining moment at a Fortune 50 board briefing where she was dismissed by a CEO, responding with composure built from ten years of unseen professional work. She reframes the concept of "getting lucky" as a decodable recipe of accumulated skill, pattern recognition, and resilience that women can identify and carry into their next career chapter.
Tags
executive-presence · women-in-leadership · career-development · self-advocacy · pattern-recognition · second-act · professional-growth
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.99) · Al Vivian (person, 0.85) · Kristi Dohring (person, 0.8) · Leonard Rothman (person, 0.8) · E. Annette Yates (person, 0.75) · Second Act (concept, 0.92) · executive presence (concept, 0.88) · Fortune 50 (organization, 0.9)
Classification
notes · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026