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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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Why Clarity Comes After You Move, Not Before
Carly Vivian argues that clarity for your next career move comes not from deeper thinking but from examining the evidence in your own history. She recommends analyzing the conditions, problem types, and people present when you were at your best, and offers five guiding questions to start that process.
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Summary
Carly Vivian argues that clarity for your next career move comes not from deeper thinking but from examining the evidence in your own history. She recommends analyzing the conditions, problem types, and people present when you were at your best, and offers five guiding questions to start that process.
Tags
clarity · self-awareness · career-transition · personal-development · pattern-recognition · introspection · evidence-based
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.98) · Alan C. Moore (person, 0.85) · Clarity through evidence (concept, 0.9) · First Act (concept, 0.75) · Pattern recognition in career history (concept, 0.85)
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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