With over two decades of hands-on experience, Dale has built a career at the intersection of deep technical expertise and rare communication ability. A Certified Ethical Hacker holding credentials including CEH, MCSE, and more, Dale is also an EC-Council Certified Instructor and Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 20 years in the field. As a former CTO he brings a perspective few in cybersecurity can match. He has lived on both sides of the wall, as the person defending the network and the one trying to break into it.

His teaching and speaking credits include some of the most recognized names in industry and government: MasterCard, Ford Motors, Kroger, Canadian Tire, Cox Communications, divisions of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and universities and Fortune 500 companies across North America and Europe. Whether he is training an elite IT security team or briefing a C-suite on emerging threats, Dale’s ability to translate complex, high-stakes concepts into clear, actionable intelligence has made him one of the most sought-after voices in the field.

Dale is a top-rated Pluralsight author, having authored, produced, and facilitated over 70 cybersecurity and technology courses on the platform, reaching learners in organizations worldwide. He is also the author of three published books: Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Guide, The OSINT Handbook, and Hacking Tricks, Methods, and Offensive Strategies: Digital Reconnaissance.

On stage, Dale is in his element. A fixture at IT and cybersecurity conferences across the U.S. and Europe, he captivates audiences with a presentation style that is equal parts sharp, entertaining, and impossible to tune out.

Beyond the boardroom and the conference stage, Dale is deeply committed to community impact. He regularly speaks at nonprofit gatherings, youth organizations, and community events, helping everyday people and families navigate the digital world with confidence. His Dale Dumbs IT Down social media presence has become a trusted resource for home network security, personal device safety, and practical digital literacy.

In a world where digital threats evolve faster than most organizations can keep up, Dale Meredith equips leaders and teams with the clarity, awareness, and practical strategies needed to stay one step ahead.

As a certified Senior HR Professional (SPHR) and Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Alice brings a rare combination of credentials, corporate experience, and hard-won wisdom to every stage she steps onto. Her career spans more than three decades of senior leadership in Corporate America, split evenly between business and HR leadership roles, a balance that gives her insights, depth, and practicality that resonate with leaders at every level, from the C-suite to the frontline.

From U.S. corporate stages to international conference rooms, Alice’s speaking footprint spans two continents. She has been invited to bring her messages to organizations including Starbucks, Costco, T-Mobile, UCLA, the U.S. Navy, Edward Jones, and Salesforce, and has engaged executive teams, managers, and individual contributors through conference addresses and executive events across Ireland, Germany, France, England, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, London, the Netherlands, and beyond.

When presenting, Alice is known for something rare: the ability to make every person in the room feel like she is speaking directly to them. Her presentations are warm, honest, research-backed, and disarmingly practical. She does not traffic in theory. She shares what actually works, because she has done the work herself.

Alice is the author of over 30 leadership, change management, and HR courses on Pluralsight, one of the world’s leading technology learning platforms, where her content consistently earns top marks, and many have been adopted as mandatory learning by organizations across the globe. She is also the author of Cultivating Change Ready Cultures on LinkedIn, a resource followed by leaders navigating the relentless pace of change in today’s workplace.

Everything Alice teaches, every framework, every strategy, every tool she shares, flows from one core belief she has carried throughout her entire career. How we show up as leaders matters. More than most leaders realize. When we lead with disorganization, operate in chaos, or drop commitments or change priorities without warning, we do not just create stress for ourselves. We create it for every person on our team. And that stress does not stay at the office. It travels home. It sits at dinner tables. It shows up in relationships and in how our team members show up for the people they love most. That she teaches is the ripple effect of leadership. And it runs in both directions.
When leaders choose to lead with intention, with clarity, consistency, and habits that reflect their values that ripple reaches just as far. It steadies people. It builds confidence. It creates the kind of safety that allows teams to do their best work and go home with something left in them to give back to those who matter most.

Alice’s greatest passion is helping leaders sit with the full weight of the responsibility of their role and then rise to meet it. Not out of pressure or guilt, but out of genuine understanding of the privilege and responsibility that comes with any role that touches other people’s lives. Her closing message never changes:
“The leaders worth remembering are not the ones who had all the answers. They are the ones who helped others find their own, who built confidence where there was doubt, revealed talent where it went unnoticed, and kept people focused on what and who mattered most.”

What sets Alice apart as a culture and change strategist is not just what she has taught, but what she has lived. For 30 years, while traveling state to state and eventually coast to coast to support teams through complex cultural and change challenges, she and her husband raised six children: three biological daughters and three brothers adopted as a sibling group, a decision that expanded their family overnight and changed everything. That parallel journey gave Alice a perspective on resilience, navigating change, finding balance, and forward momentum that no textbook or certification could ever fully capture.

It is why Alice is regularly invited to speak not just on organizational change and culture strategy but on the challenge so many working parents and career-driven leaders quietly carry: how do you show up fully at work and fully at home when both are asking everything of you? She does not pretend to have a perfect answer. But she has a real one. And audiences feel the difference.

When she is not delivering a keynote, leading a workshop, or teaching on a virtual stage, Alice is most likely hiking or trail riding in the mountains, dancing in the kitchen with her grandkids, front row at a classic rock concert, or elbow deep in a cabin remodel in some beautiful corner of the world – because if the music is loud enough and the view is wide enough, everything else has a way of falling into place.