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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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Life After the Game: Top 10 Career Transition Tips for Athletes
Life After the Game provides guidance for retiring athletes transitioning to new careers, featuring advice from 13+ former elite athletes including Olympians and Paralympians. The article emphasizes leveraging transferable soft skills, proactive planning, networking, and maintaining athletic identity as key strategies for successful career transitions.
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Summary
Life After the Game provides guidance for retiring athletes transitioning to new careers, featuring advice from 13+ former elite athletes including Olympians and Paralympians. The article emphasizes leveraging transferable soft skills, proactive planning, networking, and maintaining athletic identity as key strategies for successful career transitions.
Tags
career-transition · athlete-retirement · soft-skills · professional-development · sports-to-career · personal-branding · networking
Key entities
Serena Williams (person, 0.95) · David Denton (person, 0.95) · David Wetherill (person, 0.95) · Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (person, 0.95) · Lawrence Clarke (person, 0.9) · Carmen Lim (person, 0.9) · Ben Onyeama-Christie (person, 0.95) · Luke Harding (person, 0.9) · Palmer Foster (person, 0.9) · Jesse Menghini (person, 0.9) · Luke Baldwin (person, 0.9) · Olly Benkert (person, 0.9) · Tyler Bernardini (person, 0.9) · add-victor (organization, 0.85) · Leicester Riders (organization, 0.85) · athlete-mindset (concept, 0.95) · transferable-soft-skills (concept, 0.95) · personal-branding (concept, 0.9) · Olympics (event, 0.95) · Paralympics (event, 0.95)
Classification
reference · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Jul 2026