27 years with multinationals in the Gulf, including Gillette, P&G and Etisalat, rising from sales clerk to Trade Marketing Manager for the Middle East. Then 20 years building his own businesses in the UAE and India. Now available to colleges, institutes and companies as a speaker and trainer.
Email to book WhatsApp +91 98402 44034 Call ▶ Watch the full talkAnwar Barayil is a Chennai-based sales and goal-setting trainer for colleges, institutes and companies. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh come first; anywhere else when the host covers travel, stay and fee.
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Source: SAFI seminar feedback form, 24 responses from MBA and PGDM students, collected by the institute. Scale 1 to 10. Averages are computed, not typed.
"Would recommend": 18 yes, 6 not sure, none said no. "Open to a sales career" counts yes and maybe. All 24 called the goal-setting part interesting, useful or practical.
He shared nothing from books. It's from his personal experience. Really great to have Mr Anwar Barayil with us.
The session was great. I got clarity on sales as a career. Thank you.
100 percent perfect one, and gets motivation.
Good event, clear presentation, and a valuable learning experience.
Interesting session. Gained many valuable points and thoughts.
I hope we will get your guidance in future.
Why sales belongs beside engineering, medicine, law and accountancy. For final-year business and management students.
A guided exercise where every student leaves with written goals and a first step. Rated interesting, useful or practical by all 24.
Finding customers, the sales call, handling objections and closing, drawn from 27 years at Gillette, P&G and Etisalat.
Field sales, trade marketing and sales planning for FMCG, telecom and retail teams.
Took a 40% pay cut at Transmed to learn FMCG. Educated at Madras Christian College, Chennai.
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Anwar Barayil is a sales and goal-setting trainer. He spent 27 years with multinationals in the Gulf, including Gillette, P&G and Etisalat, rising from sales clerk to Trade Marketing Manager for the Middle East. He then spent 20 years running his own businesses in the UAE and India. He now gives career talks, goal-setting workshops and selling-skills training for colleges, institutes and companies across India.
Anwar Barayil offers selling-skills training, goal-setting workshops and career talks in Kerala, including Kozhikode (Calicut), Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. His first session after moving back to India was at SAFI Institute of Advanced Study, Calicut, on 2 November 2026, where 24 MBA and PGDM students rated the overall event 8.5 out of 10.
A goal-setting workshop is a guided session where each participant writes down specific goals and a first step towards each one. Anwar Barayil runs it as a half-day workshop with the exercise built in. At SAFI Institute, all 24 students called the goal-setting part interesting, useful or practical.
Yes. The career talk "Sales is a career worth choosing" runs for 90 minutes and is aimed at final-year business and management students. It explains why sales belongs beside engineering, medicine, law and accountancy, using Anwar Barayil's own path from sales clerk to manager. After the SAFI talk, 79% of the 24 students said they were open to a sales career.
The selling-skills course runs for 1 to 2 days. It covers finding customers, the sales call, handling objections and closing. The material comes from 27 years in field sales, trade marketing and sales training at Gillette, P&G and Etisalat. At SAFI, 96% of students (23 of 24) said they want to learn selling skills.
Yes. His first preference is the four southern states: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. He is based in Chennai. Colleges and companies in any other Indian state, or abroad, can book any session when the host covers travel and accommodation along with his fee. Corporate sales team training covers field sales, trade marketing and sales planning for FMCG, telecom and retail teams, and is built to each company's needs.
Call or WhatsApp +91 98402 44034, or email anwar.barayil@gmail.com, with your college or company name, city, group size and the session you want: career talk, goal-setting workshop, selling-skills course or corporate sales training.
