The Highlands Ability Battery
Discover your innate strengths and unlock your career potential
The Highlands Ability Battery is the gold standard in career aptitude testing. As a Doctor of Psychology with over 30 years offering career coaching and assessments, I use this powerful tool to help professionals and students make confident, informed career decisions.
Why it matters in later life
As we move through midlife and beyond, many of us pause to ask:
How do I want to use my energy now?
What roles, projects, or contributions feel most natural to me?
Where will I feel most alive, purposeful, and at ease?
The HAB can bring fresh clarity to these questions. By uncovering your natural strengths, it helps explain why some tasks feel effortless while others drain you, and it highlights how best to use your abilities in ways that feel both rewarding and sustainable.
When it’s useful
Considering retirement or reshaping your work life
Exploring new avenues for contribution, volunteering, or study
Wondering how to make best use of your abilities now
Seeking deeper self-understanding to guide your next chapter
Why the Highlands Ability Battery?
I researched all ability assessments to find the most useful one for my clients. With over 20 years as a Highlands Consultant, I have a deep understanding of both this assessment and the psychology of ability testing and interpretation.
The Highlands Ability Battery
Comprises 18 separate validated objective aptitudes.
Measures your relative ability in specific areas, from problem-solving to information retention.
Identifies what comes naturally to you, pinpointing potential areas of career excellence.
Provides a solid foundation for effective career choices, especially crucial for mid-career transitions.
What it involves
Online assessment
Around three hours, completed in shorter segments at your own pace
Personalised feedback session
A one-to-one conversation with me to interpret your results and connect them to your life now
Practical insights
Clear guidance on how your natural abilities align with roles, projects, and ways of living that bring out your bes
Why clients value it
Reveals talents you may overlook or take for granted
Provides language to explain why certain activities feel energising or exhausting
Builds confidence in making aligned choices for the years ahead
Offers a framework for realigning life and work with what comes most naturally
Ready to discover your strengths and unlock your potential
Start your journey to a better career by accessing the Highlands Ability Battery assessment.
Maximize your investment
While the Highlands Ability Battery provides invaluable insights, it’s most effective when combined with a holistic career assessment.
Consider adding in-depth career coaching sessions and additional assessments for a complete evaluation of all you have to offer.
The Highlands Ability Battery
Students and recent graduates-
Comprehensive Highlands report
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Career exploration supplement
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Personal work types analysis
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In-depth 30-page guide – Highlands Explored
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Personalised Critical Career Implications summary
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Discussion - up to 2 hours
The Highlands Ability Battery
Life changing assessment-
Comprehensive Highlands report
-
Career exploration supplement
-
Personal work types analysis
-
In-depth 30-page guide – Highlands Explored
-
Personalised Critical Career Implications summary
-
Discussion - up to 2 hours