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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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8,000 Jobs Cut at Meta
Carly Vivian reflects on the emotional and financial toll of Meta's 8,000 job cuts, focusing on the women silently running severance calculations and facing uncertainty alone. The post highlights the loneliness of layoffs, especially for senior leaders, and offers solidarity to those affected across tech, consulting, finance, and other industries.
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Summary
Carly Vivian reflects on the emotional and financial toll of Meta's 8,000 job cuts, focusing on the women silently running severance calculations and facing uncertainty alone. The post highlights the loneliness of layoffs, especially for senior leaders, and offers solidarity to those affected across tech, consulting, finance, and other industries.
Tags
layoffs · meta · tech-industry · women-in-tech · job-loss · career · resilience
Key entities
Carly Vivian (person, 0.95) · Meta (organization, 0.99) · Meta layoffs (event, 0.95) · women in the workforce (concept, 0.85) · job loss and severance (concept, 0.9) · Victoria Pelletier (person, 0.7) · Diana Alvear (person, 0.6) · Will Linssen (person, 0.6) · LinkedIn (technology, 0.8)
Classification
notes · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 27 Jul 2026