About Tim
Trusted Advisor | Consultant | Author
My Story
After 25 years serving as senior pastor of five congregations, 2003 found Tim Owings re-inventing his professional life. After three years as a consultant with churches, Tim joined Smith Barney in 2007 as a Financial Advisor. He earned the CFP® designation in 2011. Fourteen years later, after building a very successful practice with two partners, Tim retired from Morgan Stanley at the end of June 2021. He is currently under contract with Hartford Funds as one of their thought leaders developing practice management materials for financial advisors.
Having worked with men and women, families, and business owners who face personal struggles, Tim offers a unique approach that teaches advisors how best to understand and support their clients. The founder of TL Owings & Associates, LLC, Tim speaks to the current need advisors face as they build connective relational tissue with clients in the age of robo-everything. In 2016, he published Cadence of Care: Imagining a Transformed Advisor-Client Experience. That work led to his speaking to advisors and managers while at Morgan Stanley and was the catalyst for launching his consulting and speaking business.
A native of Miami, Florida, he graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Proud parents of three adult children and grandparents to five grandchildren, he and his wife make their home in Asheville, NC.
Among Tim’s varied interests are reading widely, writing, supporting and consulting with advisors, and taking in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. A pianist since childhood, you will often find him at the keyboard crafting arrangements of old songs and occasionally composing a new one.
I Don’t Do Lunch
In 2015, Forbes published an article by Robert Laura titled “When Couples Argue About Retirement” which grabbed my attention. Laura noted the one, often overlooked part of a couple’s retirement plan: managing their relationship when work is in the rearview mirror....
Looking Both Ways
Carey sat in my office to discuss an investment in his retirement. During our time together, I suggested a long-term strategy with incremental short-term steps. “I’ve been thinking a lot,” he said, “about a question you asked me months ago.” I leaned in a bit as he...
Loneliness
Advisors today have many clients who are single, widowed, or divorced. The numbers are telling: single adults in the United States now comprise slightly more than half the adult population and growing. For younger adults, being single poses unique challenges. Under 40...
A clarion call to lead with purpose, Cadence of Care offers a wise and practical guide to deepening and enriching client relationships.