Career Assessment & College-Major Coaching for Tandem Friends School Families
Tandem Friends is a Quaker school for fifth through twelfth grade in Charlottesville. Its emphasis on student voice, reflection, and the inner life pairs well with the kind of self-knowledge work the Highlands enables.
Tandem Friends School — Charlottesville, VA · 5-12 Quaker, day
Why the Highlands fits Tandem Friends School
Tandem students often want a deeper, more reflective tool than a standard career quiz. The Highlands provides objective data that fits naturally into a student-led, discernment-oriented college process.
How we engage
Most Tandem Friends 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.
- Individual Highlands work for upper-school students
- Senior-year reflection cohort
- Parent-and-student joint debriefs
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 Tandem Friends 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.