Jared Peatman, Ph.D., President and Founder
A graduate of Gettysburg College with a master’s degree from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. from Texas A&M, Jared Peatman is the founder and president of Four Score Consulting, LLC, as well as a faculty member at the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership and the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.
Jared’s first book is The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. For that project Jared was named the 2009 Organization of American Historians/Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Doctoral Fellow and in 2012 received the Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize for the best work on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War. He is also the author, with Steven B. Wiley, of A Transformational Journey: Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg. He is currently working on a book about Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine, and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jared holds a certificate in of achievement in experiential education from the National Society of Experiential Education, and is certified to deliver the EQ-i2.0 and EQ360 Emotional Intelligence assessments as well as the Social Style Inventory.
A graduate of Gettysburg College with a master’s degree from Virginia Tech and Ph.D. from Texas A&M, Jared Peatman is the founder and president of Four Score Consulting, LLC, as well as a faculty member at the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership and the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.
Jared’s first book is The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. For that project Jared was named the 2009 Organization of American Historians/Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Doctoral Fellow and in 2012 received the Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize for the best work on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War. He is also the author, with Steven B. Wiley, of A Transformational Journey: Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg. He is currently working on a book about Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine, and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jared holds a certificate in of achievement in experiential education from the National Society of Experiential Education, and is certified to deliver the EQ-i2.0 and EQ360 Emotional Intelligence assessments as well as the Social Style Inventory.
Peter Vermilyea, Senior Associate
A graduate of Gettysburg College with a master’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Educational Leadership from Southern Connecticut State University, Peter Vermilyea is the History Department chairperson at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, and a faculty member at the University of Connecticut and Western Connecticut State University.
Pete has been named Connecticut’s History Teacher of the Year and Connecticut Region One Teacher of the Year and received the University of Connecticut’s Award for Excellence in Course Instruction. In addition to teaching history, his work focuses on curriculum development and teacher evaluation.
A specialist in local history, Pete is the author of Hidden History of Litchfield County (for which he was awarded the 2015 CultureMAX Award from the Connecticut Arts Council), Wicked Litchfield County, and Litchfield County and the Civil War (2023), the last of which chronicles how one Northern county reacted to the coming of the Civil War, focusing on the political, social, and economic impacts of the approach of war on a single community.
Pete has been an instructor with Four Score Consulting since 2017.
A graduate of Gettysburg College with a master’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Educational Leadership from Southern Connecticut State University, Peter Vermilyea is the History Department chairperson at Housatonic Valley Regional High School, and a faculty member at the University of Connecticut and Western Connecticut State University.
Pete has been named Connecticut’s History Teacher of the Year and Connecticut Region One Teacher of the Year and received the University of Connecticut’s Award for Excellence in Course Instruction. In addition to teaching history, his work focuses on curriculum development and teacher evaluation.
A specialist in local history, Pete is the author of Hidden History of Litchfield County (for which he was awarded the 2015 CultureMAX Award from the Connecticut Arts Council), Wicked Litchfield County, and Litchfield County and the Civil War (2023), the last of which chronicles how one Northern county reacted to the coming of the Civil War, focusing on the political, social, and economic impacts of the approach of war on a single community.
Pete has been an instructor with Four Score Consulting since 2017.