Ian Koniak

I help tech sales AEs perform to their full potential in sales and life with coaching, courses, and community | Sales Coach | Former #1 Enterprise AE at Salesforce | $100M+ in career sales

I help B2B Account Executives perform to their full potential by mastering their  mindset, habits, and selling skills. 

As the former #1 Enterprise AE at Salesforce globally, I teach you what works. I've sold over 100M in my career, hit quota 16 of 19 years, and broken 7 figures 3 times. 

My coaching programs help sales professionals achieve the results they know they are capable of, while also finding joy and fulfillment outside of just their work. This program is built specifically for SaaS AE's and provides the training which you likely aren't getting from your company or manager. 

Prior to starting my own business, I worked in B2B technology sales for 19 years at F500 tech companies as an individual contributor, Sales Manager, and Director of Sales, with over 100M in career sales and numerous finishes at #1 nationally, including finishing #1 in the US Enterprise Select Division of Salesforce.

Most recently I worked as a Strategic Account Director for the Enterprise West Sales team at Salesforce, where I partnered with our largest customers to help them drive growth, innovation, and success on the Salesforce Platform. At Ricoh, I led a team of 10 Sales Managers and 70 reps responsible for 60M Annual Revenue across hardware, software, and services. 

After a near death experience, I started a coaching business to serve others and help them achieve incredible success by mastering the mindset, habits, and skills needed to perform at the highest level. I've also had to overcome numerous hardships in my personal life, including nearly losing my family to addiction. 

My mission is to share my learnings over 20 years in tech sales to help AE's perform their best without sacrificing their personal time, families, or health. To hear my full story, visit www.iankoniak.com or visit https://untapyoursalespotential.com

When I'm not coaching, I enjoy spending quality time with my wonderful family, running, and traveling.

Founder & CEO

We help Account Executives perform at their full potential by mastering the mindset, habits, and skills needed to perform at the highest level in sales with our sales coaching programs and online courses.

We offer private, group, and online sales coaching programs. We teach the exact playbook Ian Koniak used to become the #1 Enterprise AE at Salesforce and close over 100M in his career. 

Through a combination of live coaching calls, online training videos, live events, and a vibrate community, we help sellers perform reach the top 1% and change their lives and their families lives forever by maximizing their impact and impact. 

To learn how to get started, book a free coaching strategy call here https://calendly.com/tanveermostafa/30min-1

I can't stop thinking about Untap Your Sales Potential's Fall Mastermind.

95 incredible sellers coming together not to sell more, but to live better.

This wasn’t sales training. It was truly about transformation.

We put together this video to share with the community.

And I thought I'd share it with LinkedIn too.

I hope we see YOU at the next one!

I help tech sales AEs perform to their full potential in sales and life by mastering their mindset, habits, and selling skills | Sales Coach | Former #1 Enterprise AE at Salesforce | $100M+ in career sales

Most sellers don’t have a sales problem. They have a habits problem.

If you want to grow your sales, start by changing your habits.

Changing your habits builds confidence.
And confidence is the number one driver of sales success.

When you keep your word to yourself you feel better about yourself.

And when you feel better about yourself, everything changes.

You tackle hard tasks with more courage.
You take bigger swings.
You stay present in front of customers.
You speak with conviction.
And conviction is what buyers respond to.

This is why we spent the last four months inside my coaching program focused entirely on habits. Last week we wrapped up the Habits module during our group call. At the end of the call, I asked members to share their biggest wins. 

Here are a few highlights across three areas that matter most: mind, body, and spirit.

𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱
Your mind is your operating system. When it’s calm and centered, everything gets easier.

David Beckley has been doing a morning routine with meditation and a workout for almost two years. It has become part of who he is. He recently leveled up by adding Joe Dispenza’s “Box Meditation,” which has elevated his clarity and execution.

Rob O'Keefe went from never meditating to fully leaning into Transcendental Meditation. He completed the formal training and now meditates twice a day. He shared how much calmer and clearer he feels, even on a simple walk with his dogs.

𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆
Your body is your energy source. If you don’t take care of it, nothing else works.
Falyn Coleman-Wright, PMP committed to a 30 day morning walk challenge. As of last week, she hit day 21. Her biggest win wasn’t the walk itself, it was the identity shift.
 “I’m proud that I’m a person who keeps my word to myself. I’m proud that I prioritize my health.”

Stephany realized her sleep quality wasn’t where she wanted it. So she built a stronger nighttime routine to show up more present and energized. Better sleep created better days, and better days created better performance.

𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁
Your spirit is your purpose. Your why. Your fuel.

Ahiman has been in the program for nearly two years. The habit that changed him most is reading his mission statement every morning. It reconnects him to what he is building over each 12 week period and the man he wants to become as a husband, father, and leader.

This clarity makes the hard days easier and gives meaning to the work.

Seeing these transformations is the most rewarding part of what I do. If you want to get inspiration from sellers doing the deep work on themselves, hear their stories below: 

https://lnkd.in/gzNhK96V

Anthony Natoli

LinkedIn

I work and partner with LinkedIn’s fastest growing tech companies, Enterprises and global brands as part of the New Business Marketing Solutions team.

Accomplishments thus far:

Responsible for 8+ figures of revenue generated since being off ramp in January 2024:

FY25: 112% to goal (8 figure quota)
FY24: 103% to goal (multi 7 figure quota)

Won a 1 million dollar customer in Q2 2025

Senior Account Executive

QA Wolf

Recruited to QA Wolf, a Series A Startup, to rebuild their entire outbound GTM motion for the SDR team.

Hired & lead a team of 7 rockstar SDRs.

Accomplishments prior to leaving:

→ Hired new team members, re-wrote outbound playbook and re-built tech stack infrastructure 
→ Built out lead-routing, qualification and SFDC account mapping & ownership
→ Increased meeting booked to SAO conversion rate from 30% to 80%
→ The team drove $2m in SAO qualified pipeline over 2 quarters 
→ Personally sourced $250k in pipeline

This helped QA Wolf hit their 2023 annual ARR goal, leading to a Series B round in 2024.

In addition to leading a team of SDRs, I reported directly to the co-founder / head of growth and worked cross-functionality with RevOps, Marketing, and Sales Leadership to optimize SAO & Pipeline production and efficiency.

Head of Sales Development

Lattice

Accomplishments before leaving for my first ever pursuit & opportunity into leadership:

→ FY23 Ramp: 102% quota attainment

Enterprise Account Executive

Outreach

Accomplishments before leaving:

→ FY22: 105% attainment | Closed 6 net-new logos in 9-months of ramp 
→ FY22: AVC $90k | $540k closed/won ARR
→ Built $1.2m in AE sourced pipeline in 9-months of ramp

New Logo Account Executive focused on companies with 500-10,000 employees

Demandbase

Promoted from AE to Sr AE after 1 year to work with Demandbase’s most innovative and strategic mid-market prospects & customers including Sprinklr, Braze, Accolade, Docebo, Fullstory, Checkout.com, D2L, Movable Inc, Axway, and many more.

→ Q1 2021 323% quota attainment 
→ Top rep globally for Q1

→ FY20 144% quota attainment | $2.5m in ARR closed/won
→ Top Mid-Market Rep in attainment & revenue globally 
→ FY20 Presidents Club

Senior Account Executive | Mid-Market

-FY18 130% Pipeline Attainment  
-Sourced over $2,000,000 in Closed/Won Opportunities
-Mid-market record for most meetings turned to pipeline in 1 month (22)
-Top SDR for Mid-Market Segment & rookie of the year
-Supported two AEs in our most strategic Mid-Market segment, San Francisco, CA
-Promoted to AE after 9 months in the role

Senior Sales Development Representative

Ethos Lending LLC

Full Cycle AE

150% quota attainment FY17 
125% quota attainment FY16

Presidents club FY16 & FY17

Business Development Representative

Senior Account Executive @ LinkedIn | AntNat Coaching | I post about sales, growth mindset and personal development based on my real-life experience

Senior Account Executive at LinkedIn | 10+ years in SaaS | In my role at LinkedIn, I work with high-growth tech companies, enterprises, and global brands to help them grow revenue.--~6 years ago, I almost quit sales...During the last week of Q4 in December 2019, I lost 3 deals in a single day and put up a 0 in my first Q4 as a SaaS AE. This was only a few weeks after I had hit a personal rock bottom, too. Just at the age of 26.Instead of throwing in the towel, I doubled down on feedback, learning, self development and skill building. 3 months later, I closed my first 6 figure ACV deal and never looked back. That same year (2020), I made President's Club and closed over $2.5m in ARR.Since then, my journey has lead me to where I am now.. As a result of my experiences, I now also share content that helps SDRs and AEs build and close more pipeline without sacrificing their personal development and mindset; all based on lessons from my real life experience.TLDR:  I am a normal guy with big goals who has been through some hard stuff and adversity. My mission is to use my real-life experience to help others crush it in sales &amp; life.In my free time, you will find me with my family, hanging down by the Jersey Shore, running, lifting, working out, hanging w/ my dogs, enjoying New York Sports, golf, trying new coffee shops and restaurants, and traveling.All content, thoughts and opinions are my own.For brand sponsorship opps please email anthony@natolisnuggets.com

Strategic Account Executive

Building a personal brand on LinkedIn changed my life. And no I’m not being dramatic. 

Here’s why you should consider it.. 4.5 years later and from 2k connections to nearly 60k:

-It helped me build thousands of connections, brand deal opps, network opportunities, & referrals
-It’s helped me tell my personal story and impact thousands
-It helped me land my current role! 

Most importantly, some of my content has helped others land new roles, hit their quota, earn more money and change their habits/behaviors, etc to live a better life. How damn cool?

& so much more.

All of this helped change the trajectory of my career & life.

The most common objections people tell themselves:

1. I don’t have the time
2. People will judge me

For “I don’t have the time” - I call BS. Show me your screen time and I bet we can find 30 minutes a day to post or comment. More tactical examples to help with this below.

For “people will judge me” - welcome to the club. Anything worth doing in life will A.) Put you out of your comfort zone and B.) Draw attention from people who are just sitting on the sidelines. That’s ok. Life is too short to take criticism from those not on the same path

Tactical:
-You don’t need to post every single day to start
-Stop scrolling TikTok/IG for 30 minutes and post instead
-Find content inspiration from others in your network. Reframe into your own story
-Tell YOUR story. Everyone has a journey to share
-Start with sharing lessons from your real life experience
-Share customer wins and how you are helping them
-Post content you genuinely enjoy
-Use DMs to actually connect with people you see posting on LinkedIn
-Comment your POV on posts! Another way to get into the mix! One of my comments had 50k impressions last week.

There’s a lot more here to share but I wanted to keep it simple.

At the very least, you build yourself career insurance, meet some great people and get your work out into the world. Who knows, you might end up landing some new clients, build that business or land that next dream role you’ve been wanting.

Happy Friday!

Senior Account Executive @ LinkedIn | Sharing lessons from my real-life experience to help sales reps win in sales & life | Sales Professional, Creator & Speaker

Soft skills in sales are what separate top performers. Here are 19 soft skills that you rarely will learn in a traditional sales training that can make all the difference:

→ Knowing how to get to friction fast
→ Balancing confidence with humility
→ Project Managing & Uncovering risk
→ Knowing what questions to ask & when
→ Listening for what’s not being said directly
→ Reading power dynamics inside an account
→ Knowing when to push vs when to pull back
→ Knowing how to influence & test champions
→ Navigating internal politics to get deal support
→ Remaining patient while still driving momentum
→ Turning complex problems into simple language
→ Conflict management when stakeholders disagree
→ Building trust without over-explaining or overselling
→ Framing conversations so customers feel ownership
→ Managing your own emotions and ego when you lose
→ Emotional regulation when deals slip or urgency drops
→ Executive presence on calls without being performative
→ Having good energy & not needy so prospects open up
→ Asking uncomfortable questions without sounding combative

Here's how you learn soft skills:
-Sometimes they come naturally to people (intangibles)
-9 out of 10 times you need to put in the reps and learn from losses
-Overcoming hard things in your personal life or past helps you build EQ
-Having a fun, interesting and joyful life out of work helps you remain centered

For me personally, I learned these things from getting burned in deals (learning the hard way) and overcoming hard things in life.

I try to learn from losses the best I can and constantly seek feedback.

I no longer put 'deals' on a pedestal or let them impact my self-worth. This works for me because it drives the energy in which I operate. This is how you 'detach'.

What did I miss?

Sunday: 

-Football
-Lots of coffee 
-Little bit of work
-Diner for breakfast 
-Recovery / rest day 
-HomeGoods, TJMaxx, PetCo

Feeling like Frank The Tank in this scene of Old School. 

Ready for a short week and Thanksgiving with the family. 

New puppy comes home next week. 

Excited for week 2 of my new running journey. 

Lots of good momentum at work with clients. 

Feeling grateful for everything. 

Let’s go.

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