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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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When to Leave an Executive Role (And What That Decision Really Involves)
This chapter from The Engineering Executive's Primer provides a framework for deciding when and how to leave an executive role, covering succession planning, resignation timing, exit negotiations, and managing indecision. It emphasizes thinking about departures in terms of managing personal energy rather than optimizing resume optics.
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Summary
This chapter from The Engineering Executive's Primer provides a framework for deciding when and how to leave an executive role, covering succession planning, resignation timing, exit negotiations, and managing indecision. It emphasizes thinking about departures in terms of managing personal energy rather than optimizing resume optics.
Tags
executive-career · succession-planning · leadership · career-transitions · resignation · engineering-management · energy-management
Key entities
Succession Planning (concept, 0.95) · Executive Departure (concept, 0.95) · O'Reilly (organization, 0.9) · The Engineering Executive's Primer (concept, 0.95) · Energy Management (concept, 0.8) · Exit Negotiation (concept, 0.75)
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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