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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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Lightning Strikes Twice: The Book
Lightning Strikes Twice is a forthcoming book by Carly Vivian that helps high-achieving women decode the underlying methodology and recipe that drove their success in their first act, enabling them to strategically build their second act with clarity and purpose. The book presents a rigorous methodology for navigating major career transitions by identifying the core thinking patterns, decision-making processes, and skills that have always been the true source of achievement.
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Summary
Lightning Strikes Twice is a forthcoming book by Carly Vivian that helps high-achieving women decode the underlying methodology and recipe that drove their success in their first act, enabling them to strategically build their second act with clarity and purpose. The book presents a rigorous methodology for navigating major career transitions by identifying the core thinking patterns, decision-making processes, and skills that have always been the true source of achievement.
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career-transition · personal-development · high-achievers · methodology · second-act · women-leadership · self-discovery
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.95) · First Act (concept, 0.9) · Second Act (concept, 0.9) · methodology (concept, 0.85) · Lightning Strikes Twice (event, 0.95)
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reference · language en · status final
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claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026