What We Offer

We offer courses, workshops and consulting to both Individuals and Groups.

The courses and workshops are based on The Highlands Battery, a series of 19 exercises that measure and define your natural abilities.

Learn More About The Highlands Battery

This is not like any other test you’ve ever taken. In each exercise, you use your keyboard to solve a puzzle that tells us something about you.

There are no grades and no good or bad results. Each exercise measures a particular aptitude – how well you can distinguish one musical note from another, for example. Or whether you prefer concrete tasks to abstract problems. You will find most of the exercises to be challenging and interesting. And you’ll be amazed how much they reveal about you.

After you complete the Battery, you will receive a 33-page report describing your results. This report will help you find the answers to many vital questions:

How do I learn best? What is the best study environment for me? How do I communicate best with my fellow students? How do I solve problems and make decisions most easily? How shall I plan my classroom, study and homework schedules?

After you have received your report, you go over the results in detail with Dr. Tom Tavantzis. In a 2-hour feedback session, you and Dr. Tom will discuss your abilities as they relate to your school career and the courses for which your profile ideally suits you. This process is the foundation for developing a long-term career strategy. Everyone is born with natural abilities. Natural abilities are not influenced by education or experience, they are just there to be harnessed and developed. By the age of fourteen your natural abilities have matured enough to be defined and measured.

No matter who you are or what stage of your education you are in, you can count on your ability profile to be a practical, objective way to provide you with direction and focus. You will gain the knowledge that allows you to make practical decisions about educational choices and career options.

Explore Your Talents Consultation for Individuals

An Explore Your Talents Consultation, including:

• Taking The Highlands Ability Battery
• The Highlands Ability Battery Report for Students and the Highlands Career Exploration Supplement.
• A 90-minute consultation with Dr. Tavantzis, either virtual or at his Wayne office.
• A digital recording of the consult.
• Copies of two books by Dr. Tavantzis, Don’t Waste Your Talent and his latest, Hardwired.

To learn more and discuss your needs, Dr. Tavantzis offers a FREE 30 Minute Discovery session.

Click here to get your FREE 30 Minute Discovery session with Dr. Tavantzis

Explore Your Talents Course for Individuals

This is suitable for all levels of students from high school juniors to graduate school candidates who have already had the individual consultation.

The three-session course will give you a deeper understanding of your ability profile and a chance to explore various career, majors and possible college environments. There are also between-session homework assignments

Session 1: Deepening the connection of your abilities to career exploration through the Highlands Career Exploration Supplement

Session 2: Exploration of aligned careers and your interests

Session 3: A discussion of potential majors, as well as your unique factors in and choosing higher education settings

The course includes three one-hour virtual coaching sessions over a one-month period, course materials and a copy of the Highlands publication The Right Choice.

Explore Your Talents Course for Individuals is designed for those who want to take the course on your own. To learn more and discuss your needs, Dr. Tavantzis offers a FREE 30 Minute Discovery session.

Click here to get your FREE 30 Minute Discovery session with Dr. Tavantzis

Explore Your Talents Course for Schools and Organizations

For groups of 5-40, Dr. Tavantzis offers expanded group overview and Q&A sessions.

These sessions can be conducted virtually or in person.

This course is suitable for all levels of students from high school juniors to graduate school candidates

Students take the battery and then – at an agreed time – either sign on virtually for a video conference with Dr Tavantzis or schedule a time to meet as a group in his office in Wayne, Pa. or at a hosting school or organization.

Session 1: (90 minutes) Group review of The Highlands Ability Battery report

Session 2: (90 minutes) Review of the Highlands Career Exploration Report followed by individual Q&A.

Participants receive copies of Dr. Tavantzis’ books Don’t Waste Your Talent and Hardwired, plus the Highlands publication The Right Choice.

Optional Add-ons:

• Individual consultations
• One-hour parent small group Q&A
• A third session focusing on interests and values
• A fourth session focusing on majors, college environments and creating a vision for the next steps

To learn more and discuss your needs, Dr. Tavantzis offers a FREE 30 Minute Discovery session.

Click here to get your FREE 30 Minute Discovery session with Dr. Tavantzis

One-On-One Coaching

Dr. Tavantzis offers private One-On-One Coaching to students on a virtual basis using Skype

For some students, exploring their choices, majors, and careers in an extended ongoing relationship might be more helpful.

This would include The Highlands Ability Battery as well as all that is included in Explore Your Talents Course for Individuals, plus parent sessions for assisting in using the battery results.

To learn more and discuss your needs, Dr. Tavantzis offers a FREE 30 Minute Discovery session.

Click here to get your FREE 30 Minute Discovery session with Dr. Tavantzis