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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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40% of Transitions Will Fail
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian highlights that 40% of executive leadership transitions fail, a figure consistent across major research sources for over a decade. The post argues these failures are clarity failures, not capability failures, and that successful transitions require executives to first decode their own strengths before deciding where to apply them.
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Summary
A LinkedIn post by Carly Vivian highlights that 40% of executive leadership transitions fail, a figure consistent across major research sources for over a decade. The post argues these failures are clarity failures, not capability failures, and that successful transitions require executives to first decode their own strengths before deciding where to apply them.
Tags
executive-transition · leadership · career-change · self-awareness · organizational-culture · failure-rate · late-career
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 1) · André Porsch (person, 0.9) · McKinsey (organization, 0.95) · Harvard Business Review (organization, 0.9) · Heidrick & Struggles (organization, 0.9) · CEB (organization, 0.85) · BTS (organization, 0.85) · DDI (organization, 0.8) · Gartner (organization, 0.8) · executive transition failure (concept, 0.95) · leadership clarity (concept, 0.9) · self-awareness (concept, 0.85)
Classification
snippet · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026