Dale Turnbull

Dale Turnbull is a leadership coach, trainer, and creator of The 7 Positions of Leadership, a practical framework designed to help professionals turn leadership knowledge into everyday action. Through his work in practical leadership development, Dale focuses on closing the gap between knowing what effective leadership looks like and consistently putting it into practice.

With more than twelve years of experience, Dale has coached and trained over eight hundred professionals, including three hundred people he managed directly. That hands-on experience has given him a close view of how leaders develop, where they get stuck, and what can help them move forward.

At the center of Dale’s work is a simple observation: leadership training often falls short not because the ideas are wrong, but because those ideas do not fully transfer into daily behavior. Leaders may understand what they should do yet struggle to apply that knowledge consistently when communicating, making decisions, managing people, or responding to challenges.

Dale created The 7 Positions of Leadership to help address that gap. Rather than relying on a single default management style, his framework encourages leaders to become more intentional and adaptable in how they lead. His approach to practical leadership development moves concepts beyond the training room and into behaviors that can become part of everyday professional life.

Drawing on his background in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and years of hands-on work across teams and organizations, Dale emphasizes awareness, adaptability, and deliberate action. His experience allows him to connect leadership concepts with the realities professionals face in their day-to-day roles.

As the founder of Lead Adapt Impact, Dale works with companies and individuals who want to build leadership cultures that create meaningful, lasting change. His work encourages leaders to look beyond simply knowing what good leadership is and examine how consistently they actually practice it.

Through coaching, training, and The 7 Positions of Leadership, Dale helps professionals bridge the space between understanding leadership principles and putting them into practice where they matter most: in everyday actions, interactions, and decisions.