Jen Stevie - ENFJ, SDG 4 & 8
Hey - this is me, Jen. So - while I wanted to keep the style and flavour of the THC series, it felt super weird and not natural to write about myself in the third person for this last blogpost. I leaned heavily into AI to keep it neutral/ in the same third person style. I also felt I could be too biased/ hyper analytical when watching & summarizing my own episode. I had Kai have an editing round too … for good measure... 🤓🤔
🙌Anyways, here we go - the post for the final episode in The Human CV playlist:
📍 Christchurch, New Zealand
🧠 ENFJ
🌏 #4 Quality Education | #8 Decent Work & Economic Growth
🌱 ROOTS IN OBSERVING HUMANS
Jen’s interest in human personalities started young. As a teenager she noticed the defined “roles” inside every group - the leader, the quiet one, the rebel, the organiser - long before she knew anything about personality theory. She connected it to the pop groups she grew up with, like the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls, where everyone had a distinct identity and function.
This early observation shaped the way she sees people today.
🔥 A COACH WHO WORKS FAST
One of the stand-out themes in the interview was Jen’s speed.
Kai describes it directly: Watching her work is “pretty wild,” because she processes fast, moves fast and gets clear outcomes quickly. He compares seeing her facilitate with seeing someone operate on a completely different level of efficiency.
Jen doesn’t romanticise that pace. She explains that years of travelling for facilitation work forced her to run complex, multi-day workshops with intense planning, tight scheduling and dozens of variables moving at once. Obsessed with the learnings from her psychology degree, Jen converted a van into an office. For 2 years, she practiced coaching on the road - with minimal tools at times. All this sharpened the way she structures, arranges and simplifies information - and her life.
Her “speed” isn’t about rushing. It’s about years of practice making hard things simpler.
🧭 QUALITY EDUCATION & DECENT WORK
Jen names Education (SDG 4) and Decent Work (SDG 8) as her two strongest SDGs.
It fits her world: She hosted long-form group workshops, leadership sessions and coaching programmes, and spends most of her professional life coaching people and teaching about strengths, patterns and decision-making.
She’s also honest about the shortcomings she sees in the coaching industry - too slow, too padded, too many big promises - which is why she keeps her approach lean.
Her work blends teaching, clarity and practical outcomes - and this is what people deserve in those trying times.
💼 A CAREER BUILT ON FACILITATION & HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Over the years, Jen has flown around the world delivering coaching and multi-day workshops for organisations. The setup changes every time: new rooms, new people, new dynamics… Jen understood how much arranging goes on behind the scenes: room setups, energy management, timing, sequencing, and keeping people engaged for days at a time.
This background is exactly what shaped her love for simplicity. When you’ve delivered large workshops across many locations, “complicated” stops feeling clever and starts feeling unhelpful.
🌏 WHY IT MATTERS
When Kai asks why she created The Human CV, Jen explains that she wanted to bring “self-discovery” back to something fun and human - while the online world becomes more critical, harsh and polarised. People feared saying who they were because the internet would poke holes in it. She wanted to change that.
🤓 Being “outsider kid” became her superpower
She mentions growing up with:
• fixed braces
• glasses
• Jehovah’s Witness upbringing
• no money
• being “the weird one”
• not fitting the status groups
This shaped her. It made her observant. It made her care deeply about the people who feel “different.”
Her goal was simple: Give people a way to express who they are without judgement.
That philosophy now runs through all her coaching and workshops.
✨ SIMPLICITY OBSESSION
Jen loves making complex things simple. She jokes about her tendency to arrange, reorganise and streamline anything she touches.
Kai calls her an “arranger to the power of ten". Jen can manage dozens of moving parts - people, tech, content, timelines - without dropping the thread.
This is the ENFJ pattern that runs through everything she does:
See people clearly. See patterns quickly. Turn them into something useful.
❤️ AT THE CORE
Across coaching sessions, workshops, content creation and The Human CV, Jen sees a common thread:
“Make things simple. Make them human. Stop overcomplicating what people actually need.”
This is the heartbeat of the interview.
It’s the thread weaving through everything she says.
It explains her coaching, her pace, her clarity and her entire philosophy.
That’s what drives her as an educator. That’s what anchors her inside SDG 4 and 8.
And that’s what makes her voice distinct - fast, clear and human.