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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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Something Shifted in the Last Year
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian analyzes LHH's 2026 View from the C-Suite report, highlighting a dramatic shift in executive retention, with 58% of late-career executives planning to stay in their roles compared to only 11% the prior year. The post identifies AI accountability, lack of strategic clarity, and inadequate decision-making processes as the top challenges facing senior leaders today.
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Summary
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian analyzes LHH's 2026 View from the C-Suite report, highlighting a dramatic shift in executive retention, with 58% of late-career executives planning to stay in their roles compared to only 11% the prior year. The post identifies AI accountability, lack of strategic clarity, and inadequate decision-making processes as the top challenges facing senior leaders today.
Tags
executive-leadership · c-suite · ai-accountability · strategic-clarity · decision-making · talent-retention · leadership-effectiveness
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.99) · Chuck Vivian (person, 0.85) · Alan C. Moore (person, 0.85) · LHH (organization, 0.99) · AI accountability (concept, 0.95) · strategic clarity (concept, 0.95) · decision-making (concept, 0.9) · LHH 2026 View from the C-Suite (event, 0.98)
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analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026