Highlands Ability Battery
30+ years of transforming careers
Clarity begins with
self-knowledge
Objective aptitude assessment
Gain the clarity to make confident choices, contribute at your best, and pursue greater success, meaning, and satisfaction.
The Highlands Ability Battery reveals your natural abilities through performance, not perception — giving you a clear, enduring foundation for education, career, leadership, and life.
The Highlands Whole Person Method
At the Highlands Company, we help students, adults, leaders, and organizations transform deeper self-understanding into purposeful decisions and meaningful action.
The Highlands Whole Person Method brings together your aptitude results, skills, interests, Personal Style, family influences, values, and goals—considered within your current stage of career development—to create a practical, personalized path forward.
Who we serve
Whether you are choosing a first path, changing direction, developing your talent or seeking your calling, Highlands helps turn self-knowledge into confident action.
Students
Your future will evolve. Take control of what comes next by understanding your natural abilities and choosing education and career paths that build on your strengths.
High School, College GradsAdults
In a changing world of work, your natural abilities are an enduring advantage. The HAB reveals them—bringing clarity, confidence, and direction to what comes next.
Young Professionals, Career TransitionersLeaders
The HAB reveals how you’re naturally wired to lead—helping you leverage your strengths, recognize blind spots, and adapt with confidence in a changing workplace.
Professional DevelopmentFaith-based
Discover how you are naturally gifted and connect those gifts with how you are called to contribute through purpose, service, and meaningful work.
Christian Schools, OrganizationsYour next chapter
Journey with an experienced certified Highlands Consultant and gain a clearer view of your natural strengths.
For career professionals
Career professionals want more than test results—they want the expertise to translate insight into meaningful direction.
The Highlands Ability Battery and professional training program equip you to understand, interpret, and communicate natural aptitude patterns with confidence. You’ll gain an objective performance-based assessment, a Whole Person framework, practical resources, and a professional community—all designed to help clients make more informed decisions and build careers in which they can thrive.
Become a consultant
The numbers say it all
A career assessment made up of 19 timed exercises that reveal your natural abilities based on performance not perception, giving your clients a solid foundation for lifelong consideration of career options.
Highlands Ability BatteryEvery Highlands Consultant receives 40+ hours of training to provide a unique human assessment tool and an incredibly thorough and often life-changing debrief.
Become a ConsultantEstablished in 1992, The Highlands Co. has certified hundreds of career professionals around the globe in the administration of the HAB and Whole Person Model and provides ongoing training within a vibrant community.
For Counselors and ConsultantsThe HAB is based on a century of research first conducted by Johnson O’Connor. The results provide career confidence for every client as it has for the tens of thousands of HAB takers before them.
Career Counselor Success Stories
The Career Prism Method℠ Featuring Ray Giese, Founder of The Career Prism Network℠ The Career Prism Method℠ represents a new generation of human-centered career design. It integrates objective aptitude science with personality, values, interests, and motivations—then combines those insights with[...]
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Written By Mardee Handler Have you ever met someone at work who you really click with? You enjoy sitting together at lunch and even hanging out with them on weekends … but when it comes time to work on a project[...]
By Lisa Rouff, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Highlands Ability Battery Consultant When Career Questions Become Personal At some point in life, most people begin asking quiet but persistent questions: What am I good at? Why does this work feel so[...]
How Divine Mercy University’s Career Development Course Prepares Counselors to Apply a Whole Person Framework in Practice At Divine Mercy University (DMU), the School of Counseling is dedicated to forming counselors who approach their work as a vocation—an instrument of[...]
Highlands Consultant Spotlight Amy Trinnaman is a Highlands Certified Consultant with more than two decades of experience guiding students through important academic and career transitions. Her work spans college advising, career exploration, personality and aptitude assessment, special education, instruction, NCAA[...]
By Kristi Windish Highlands Consultant | Student Discovery Program – True Compass Senior year can feel overwhelming. Acceptances may be arriving—or applications may still feel unfinished—and with each deadline, the pressure increases. If you or your student feel unsure, that’s[...]
A Research-Based Perspective on the Power of Aptitude For generations, scientists, educators, and psychologists have sought to answer a timeless question: What enables people to learn, adapt, and excel throughout life? Recent research published in the International Journal of Creative[...]
The Collaborative Era: Humans and AI Redefining Work AI isn’t here to replace us—it’s emerging as an essential collaborator. By automating repetitive tasks and processing massive amounts of data, AI frees people to move into higher-value roles that rely on[...]
