Indicator Sales Leader
Sales leadership when you need it. Flexible, high impact and fully accountable.
Struggling to find the right sales leader? Sales results not where they should be? Team lacking focus or direction?
An Indicator Sales leader could be exactly what your business needs.
Our fractional Sales Leaders give your business access to senior sales leadership with flexibility. They bring tailored leadership, set the strategy and drive momentum to accelerate your sales function.
Indicator Sales Leader
Indicator pioneered the fractional sales leadership model in New Zealand and Australia and has since refined it across industries and sales environments.
Every Indicator Sales Leader is an experienced sales leader who works directly inside your business, typically 0.5 to 2 days per week, over 12–24 months, to:
- Lead and own the sales function, both strategically and operationally
- Drive measurable sales performance across people, process and technology
- Embed structure, accountability and momentum within the team
- Deliver results while building long-term capability
Each Indicator Sales Leader is backed by the wider Indicator network, a collective of sales leaders who have led thousands of salespeople and driven billions in revenue.
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Meet the team
Andrew Dale
Head of Consulting
Andrew Dale
Head of Consulting
Enabling high-performing sales teams and transformative growth
Andrew is a committed and innovative senior sales leader with a career spanning more than two decades in sales, strategy and business transformation. Before joining Indicator, he held multiple senior leadership roles at Air New Zealand, including Regional GM Sales, Head of Alliances and Head of Tandem Travel, and led the APX Travel Management business as General Manager for over 12 years.
Throughout his career, Andrew has built a reputation for delivering commercial results, identifying strategies that drive growth, and leading transformational change. He has overseen restructures, renegotiated major trade, corporate and government contracts, and consistently kept teams engaged and productive through periods of significant change.
What sets Andrew apart is his ability to connect with people and enable them to achieve their own career goals while driving broader organisational success. He brings a lifelong passion for sales and business development, believing that when sales leaders are confident, capable and connected, they deliver outstanding customer experiences and long-term results.
Abbie Takle
Senior Sales Leader
Abbie Takle
Senior Sales Leader
Driving performance through people and purpose
Abbie is a tenacious, results-driven sales leader with over 17 years’ experience in the New Zealand sales environment. She brings a unique mix of balancing commercial acumen with a genuine focus on people. She’s known for motivating teams, shaping sales strategies, and helping organisations achieve measurable growth.
At Indicator, Abbie leads the Sales Syndicate programme, facilitating four monthly forums that bring sales leaders from across industries together to share insights, tackle challenges, and learn from one another. She’s passionate about creating structure that empowers freedom, helping teams find alignment, build capability, and deliver results that last.
A strong advocate for women in sales leadership, Abbie co-founded Women in Sales NZ alongside Mike Stokes. She emcees the WIS Elevate programme, championing confidence, capability, and connection for women across the sales profession.
Simon Dickson
Sales Leader
Simon Dickson
Sales Leader
Building momentum and capability in teams
Simon is an energetic leader with more than 25 years’ experience as a business owner and sales leader. He thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments where strategy, structure, and people all come together to deliver results.
Having managed and advised multiple businesses through periods of rapid change, Simon brings a deep understanding of what it takes to drive performance while keeping teams engaged and supported. At Indicator, he works with businesses to develop and implement sales strategies, build capability, and embed change that sticks.
Chris Herbert
Sales Leader
Chris Herbert
Sales Leader
Turning research and insight into real-world performance
Chris is an experienced consultant, coach, and facilitator with over 20 years’ experience supporting sales and service teams across New Zealand, Australia, and globally. Known for his engaging style and ability to blend data-driven insight with storytelling and hands-on learning, Chris helps teams identify what matters and how to execute it effectively to lift strategy and performance.
His consulting background spans retail, finance, technology, and SaaS, with global clients including HSBC, American Express, Nespresso, Philips, and Vodafone. Before joining Indicator, Chris spent nearly 15 years with CEB (now Gartner) in the Sales & Service Practice, working with frontline reps and sales leaders to improve capability, processes, and outcomes.
Drawing on best-practice research featured in Harvard Business Review and in the books The Challenger Customer and The Effortless Experience, Chris has facilitated more than 45 client workshops globally. He’s recognised for building trust quickly, creating environments where people feel motivated and turning insight into meaningful, lasting change.
What our clients say
We have been really impressed by the results our sales team have achieved working with Indicator. Their immense knowledge has helped our team to think more strategically about their customers, and how best to service them. I would have no hesitation in recommending Indicator to anyone looking to coach their sales staff and grow their business.
Natasha Bourke
Group CEO, Skin Health Experts
We engaged Indicator to help build a sales mindset within our team and then facilitate sales strategies for a signature project for Tainui Group Holdings. The Indicator team quickly understood our brief, connected well with our team and created a positive atmosphere for learning. In developing a sales strategy, they played a steering role while helping bring the best out in the team, enabling our team to own the strategy and go out and make it happen which has worked very well for us.
Chris Joblin
CEO, Tainui Group Holdings
We've seen a dramatic improvement in our sales success, and length of sales cycle after working with Indicator. An investment that is providing the returns we hoped for.
Sam Bridgewater
The Pure Food Co.
I have really enjoyed getting involved with Indicator, all our interactions have been friendly yet professional and you guys clearly know what you’re doing and are very good at showing how businesses can move forward with more focus on specific sales management techniques.
Darryl Burn
Dalton International
We have been working with Indicator for two years and the results speak for themselves. Partnering with Indicator has enabled us to more than double our annual turnover. For a company that has been in business for 20 years that is an awesome result.
Joseph Hardie
MD, Hardie Fasteners
The structure of the ISL programme has been a perfect fit for us with the way that it is structured and has been executed. Absolutely brilliant.
John Hall
Managing Director, GS Hall
In a constantly changing sales environment, our sales team is absolutely flying! The work that Indicator has done with us has enabled everyone to add value to both their role and to our clients.
Mary Ford
Head of Sales, New Zealand Steel
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