Career Assessment & College-Major Coaching for Peabody School Families
The Peabody School is an independent K–8 day school in Charlottesville serving academically gifted students. Its commitment to depth and rigor produces students for whom objective data about their cognitive style is particularly meaningful.
Peabody School — Charlottesville, VA · K-8 independent, day
Why the Highlands fits Peabody School
Gifted students often outpace standard career frameworks. The Highlands provides a substantive tool that respects their analytical capability and gives them real data to work with.
How we engage
Most Peabody School families begin with an individual Highlands Ability Battery — a 3.5-hour online assessment plus a two-hour debrief — for one student. Some families come back for a second child two years later. Schools sometimes engage us at the institutional level for cohort work.
- Eighth-grade family engagement on high school choice
- Parent education sessions
About Timshel
Timshel Personal Consulting was founded by Benjie Colberg — Vanderbilt M.Ed., certified Highlands consultant, and nine-year Christ School faculty member who served as Dean of Campus Life. We see clients in Charlottesville and Asheville and consult with families across Virginia and North Carolina. Read more on the founder bio.
Timshel Personal Consulting is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Peabody School. We work with families and, in some cases, with school administrators on cohort engagements. School names and references are used factually to describe the populations we serve.