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Jackie Lyons reached the summit most executives spend a career climbing toward. She built a career defined by being early, one of the first U.S. implementers of SAP, one of the first CFOs in the country to carry the title Cyber CFO, and an expert witness who has testified before the SEC. She led organizations through a near-catastrophic payroll crisis and an acquisition that eliminated ninety percent of a workforce during the 2008 financial crisis. She is a CPA, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and holds the NACD board directorship certification.
None of that is what she speaks about. When she reached the title she'd spent decades preparing for, she found a question waiting on the other side that no accomplishment had prepared her to answer: what now? That question became Beyond Ambition: What Now? Designing Life After Success, a book, and now a body of work, about what happens after ambition stops providing direction, and what it takes to design a deliberate next chapter instead of drifting into one.
She lives what she writes: still adding the next capability, still asking the question, still treating no summit as the last one.
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