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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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You're Misreading This Important Situation
Carly Vivian's post argues that experienced professionals often misread their own career transitions as problems to be solved urgently, when they should treat them as diagnostic tools. The transition, she contends, produces cleaner signals about what truly energizes a person than any previous career stage could.
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Summary
Carly Vivian's post argues that experienced professionals often misread their own career transitions as problems to be solved urgently, when they should treat them as diagnostic tools. The transition, she contends, produces cleaner signals about what truly energizes a person than any previous career stage could.
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career-transition · self-awareness · leadership · diagnostics · professional-growth · decision-making
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.99) · Alan C. Moore (person, 0.95) · career transition (concept, 0.98) · diagnostic thinking (concept, 0.92) · First Act (concept, 0.85) · LinkedIn (organization, 0.8)
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