Leila Seka

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During nearly twelve years at Salesforce, she served as Executive Vice President leading AppExchange, Desk.com, and Salesforce Mobile, where she initiated the company's equal-pay audits. She later worked as a partner at Operator Collective, co-founded the Black Venture Institute, and served as Chief Operating Officer at Ironclad.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Leila argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Benioff regrets not prioritizing equal pay from Salesforce's inception

“He will openly say, if I'd known, I would have done this in the beginning too. I would have done equal pay and equality, and I would have had a chief equality officer. The second I hired the chief philanthropy officer, like he, Miss Mark Benioff, like the lege…”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 15:09 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

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Insight

Seka: White men hold the most impactful voices in diversity advocacy

“If you are a white person, and my god, if you are a white man, which I love white men, I'm married to one, I'm made to, I'm down with it, right? I like them, but you have the most important voice in this, because no one expects you to say anything.”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 11:54 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Benioff initially dismissed pay gap claims before approving compensation audit

“Cindy had a one-on-one with Mark, and she invited me, and we got all ready, and we went to the one-on-one, and we sat there, and you know, the crux of the conversation was about equal pay and it really was us sort of saying to him, hey, you know, we think ther…”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 3:22 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Seka: Leaders ignoring diversity issues will lose their roles within five years

“That type of leadership where you stand back and are like I'm gonna see what happens, you won't be a leader in five years if that's the way you decide to do it.”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 11:45 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Assertion Supported

Benioff regrets not prioritizing equal pay from Salesforce's inception

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 15:09 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Assertion Supported

Salesforce spent over $8M across three years fixing compensation disparities

“We did the equal pay audit the first year, and we found about a three million dollar issue. And then we did it the second year, and we found another three million dollar issue. And then we did it the third year, and we found another, I mean, it's north of eigh…”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 16:57 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Insight

Seka: Corporate equality requires continuous commitment rather than one-off audits

“This is not a one and done. You can't be like, oh, I went to the Bold Force meeting, I went to the Martin Luther King march, I did one pay audit. We're equal. Like, this is something that you decide to commit yourself to, and commit your company to”

Leila Seka Apr 29, 2019 ▶ 17:49 How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce	Apr 29, 2019	12m

Leila Seka

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