Career NWA

We help career explorers (students) and career changers identify their natural abilities and plan for the future. We use the Highlands Ability Battery and supportive coaching to build self-awareness and alignment to prospective career opportunities.

About Career NWA

    • Students exploring careers who need clarity on strengths and options

    • Individuals seeking a career change who want to match work to natural abillities.

    • Individuals rebuilding work confidence after setbacks or transitions.

    • Individuals moving towards retirement and looking for significance and direction in the next chapter.

    • Assess natural abilities with the Highlands Ability Battery to reveal innate strengths.

    • Provide empathetic, strengths-based coaching to interpret results and set goals.

    • Create clear, actionable plans that break career transitions into manageable steps.

    • Offer support as needed to track progress, adjust plans, and maintain momentum.

    • Focus on natural abilities reduces guesswork and increases satisfaction in career choices.

    • Strengths-based coaching builds confidence and resilience needed for change.

    • Action plans translate insight into real-world progress, preventing stagnation.

    • Combining assessment, coaching, and practical tools creates sustainable career transitions.

    • Clearer understanding of personal abilities and suitable career directions.

    • Realistic, time-bound plans for education, skill development, or job search.

    • Improved self-confidence and readiness to pursue meaningful work.

    • 15 minute phone call to receive instructions on how to take the Highlands.

    • Strengths-first: Build solutions around innate abilities, not just interests or market trends.

    • Practicality: Actionable steps matter more than abstract plans.

    • Compassion: Change is hard; supportive coaching matters.

    • Hope-centered: Aim for work that provides purpose, stability, and forward momentum.

Our Services

  • The Highlands Ability Battery package includes:

    • 15-minute phone consultation 

    • 3 hour HAB online assessment

    • Complete HAB report and access to college  and career databases

    • 2 hour feedback session - in-person in NWA or virtually if out of state

  • The Personal Vision Coaching Program includes the HAB assessment plus 5 hours of One-on-One Coaching for Professionals

    • 5 hours of Personalized Coaching - in-person in NWA or virtually if out of state

    • Highlands Ability Battery

    • Personal Career Exploration Report

    • Comprehensive report interpretation

    • Interest profile review

    • Skills sorting and processing

    • Leadership profile

    • Values Identification and Assessment

    • CliftonStrengths Assessment

    • Personal and Career Vision Development

    • Passion Identification

The Highlands Ability Battery is an objective, research-backed assessment designed to help you understand and apply your unique gifts to your career … and life.

The Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) is widely considered the gold standard of human assessment tools and was founded on the work of research scientist Johnson O’Connor. It identifies a person’s natural ability and provides compelling evidence of the driving forces that lie underneath their personality and actions. These natural tendencies already influence your choices, but the more you know about them the more you can use them to your advantage.

The Highland Ability Battery

What to Expect with Highland Ability Battery…

The HAB consists of 19 virtual work samples that can be taken from any laptop. The work samples can be done one at a time or all at once and take about three hours in total. ‍ It will measure basic human ability including: 

  • Visual speed and accuracy

  • Ability to work with numbers and designs

  • Inductive reasoning

  • Analytical Reasoning

  • Idea Flow

  • Verbal aptitude

  • Structural Visualization

  • Musical aptitude

  • Applications of memory

About me

My husband and I have lived in Northwest Arkansas for more than 20 years and love this community. We have five wonderful children, ranging from junior high to young adults. Along with being a Career Coach, I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and see counseling clients at the Fellowship Counseling and Care Center.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Family Development from Oklahoma Baptist University, a Master’s in Sociology from Auburn University, and a Master’s in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from John Brown University. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I am also a trained consultant for the Highlands Ability Battery and Prepare and Enrich.

My mission as a Licensed Professional Counselor and career coach is to provide compassionate counseling and coaching that helps individuals and families overcome life’s challenges. Whether you are facing career confusion, grief, anxiety, depression, life transitions, marital difficulties, past trauma, ministry-related struggles, or seeking premarital counseling, I am honored to walk alongside you as you courageously become all you are meant to be.

Contact Me

Interested in the Highlands Ability Battery? Please share your contact information and a brief note about your goals, and I’ll get back to you shortly.