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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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Carly Vivian reflects on the disorientation successful leaders face after a major exit, arguing that their capabilities were always context-dependent rather than consciously understood. She introduces her upcoming book, Lightning Strikes Twice, which explores the process of decoding one's implicit leadership recipe for the first time.
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Summary
Carly Vivian reflects on the disorientation successful leaders face after a major exit, arguing that their capabilities were always context-dependent rather than consciously understood. She introduces her upcoming book, Lightning Strikes Twice, which explores the process of decoding one's implicit leadership recipe for the first time.
Tags
career-transition · leadership · second-act · self-discovery · executive-identity · personal-growth · entrepreneurship
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.99) · Second Act (concept, 0.92) · Leadership Recipe (concept, 0.88) · Career Transition (concept, 0.9) · Lightning Strikes Twice (event, 0.95)
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snippet · language en · status final
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claude-sonnet-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 3 Aug 2026