About Me
Timothy Askew is Founder and CEO of the elite New York and Texas-based international sales execution and consulting firm Corporate Rain International. His firm is widely recognized as the #1 boutique sales outsourcer in the world within its niche. Corporate Rain specializes in high-end new business initiation, particularly into the VP level and C-suite of corporations. His 16 year old firm has been engaged by such organizations as Marsh & McClennan, Wells Fargo, AbitibiBowater, SunGard, Jack Henry, PBS, Gallup, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Easter Seals, Alzheimer’s Association, AIG, Con Edison, DeLoitte & Touche, Avon Walk For Breast Cancer, Kroll, Ogilvy & Mather, Sarnoff, M&C Saatchi, Grey Advertising, Luxury Institute, BzzAgent, Oddcast, Harvard University, Fortis Insurance, Aventis and Avaya, among many others.
Mr. Askew holds a B.A. degree in History and an M.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Emory University. He also has an M. A. in Education from Claremont Graduate School. His picaresque working life has included stints as a tennis pro, a dishwasher, a bartender, an opera singer, and an event planner for clients like Citibank, The Museum of the City of New York, Doubleday, Vanity Fair, The New York City Ballet, The Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Williams Real Estate. In his younger days he appeared as an actor in leading roles on Broadway and on tour, as well as on the soap opera Another World on NBC. He is an ordained minister, as well as a published poet and occasional public speaker.
Mr. Askew has served on the Majority Leader’s Small Business Advisory Council for the State of New York. He lives with his wife Patti and daughter Truitte Rose in New Rochelle, New York.
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Tim:
My compliments on your blog. Congratulations. Stay in touch.
Srinivas
Tim,
Thanks for your time today on the phone. I have not started my own blog for it would just take much time but after reading some of your posts which I find interesting I may start share on some of my experience in not only sales and business development but in the arts, years in the corporate trenches etc.
It’s interesting that you did’t do “any time” (pun intended) in the corporate structure and perhaps that is why don’t don’t share my apathy or really horror at having to return to it’s ranks. Most professionals who have started sales and business development consulting practices such as yours usually come from that kind of background. However, you have arrived at exactly the right solution and key to being successful in this business which is the right approach in how you speak to Key Decision Makers and how you communicate the value add and the need for businesses to use the kind of skill set that I practice intuitively.
I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but some schools are now offering a degree in their businesses schools of a professional sales undergraduate degree. I was impressed with the recognition of the importance of sales in the business model for any company that wants to be successful. I was really happy to see skills being taught that I’ve had a lifetime building especially using my acting and theater training (improvisational skills are huge for me and a big part of how I engage clients) to improve calling, handling objections, better communication and LISTENTING skills that most young people don’t realize are the keys to a successful career in sales and business development.
Thanks again Tim for your kind response and I would appreciate staying in touch.
Sincerely,
Sean O’Neill