In this episode of Boss Files, I've learned over time that being an introvert is a strength.

It's how you embrace it and how you bring it into your leadership, and I've done that.

And that's why I do speak openly about it.

I'm not the only introverted leader out there.

But I don't need to be the loudest voice in the room.

Salesforce president and chief people officer Cindy Robbins, a self-described

introvert. She says she's learned to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. She's the one

who has led the pay equity charge at the tech giant. This is not a sales force issue. This is not even

a tech industry issue. This goes across multiple industries. It's not a U.S.

issue. This is not something that I believe will go away. I think it's just companies will be forced

to be more transparent. Born in southern Texas, she credits her Mexican-American heritage

for instilling her work ethic. She was the first in her family to go to college. Her father picked cotton

and handled a lot of the domestic work at home while her mother built a career in real estate.

Robbins tells me she feels an inherent responsibility to elevate women in the workplace.

Here's my conversation with Salesforce's Cindy Robbins. Thank you for being here. It's nice

to sit down with you, Cindy. Nice to sit down with you. You recently wrote achieving equality for all of us

is one of humankind's greatest challenges. It seems like what you're trying to do every day now

is tackle that. No small feet.

No small feet.

You know, there are few issues that I'm really, really passionate about.

Obviously, one, being equal pay.

And just women in leadership and gender equality, I think, has just been just something I've been really, really passionate about.

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