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  • How Can Salesforce Admins Find Simple Agentforce Use Cases?

    How Can Salesforce Admins Find Simple Agentforce Use Cases?
    2026/07/02
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Kacie Molina, Salesforce Consultant at Kawaii Cloud. Join us as we chat about how admins can start small with Agentforce and still make a big impact. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Kacie Molina. Why you should start small with Agentforce With all the capabilities Agentforce brings to Salesforce, it's easy to dream big. Big projects, however, require major organizational investments in time, planning, and execution. My guest this week, Kacie Molina, has some simple advice for her clients who want to get started with Agentforce: start small. Go back to the basics of listening for pain points and building solutions. Once you start piling up small wins and meaningful changes, it'll be easier to get organizational buy-in for something big and bold. Admins should listen for problems users already have Agentforce solutions don't always have to be some sort of major business process overhaul. Those types of changes require layers of approvals, budgeting, and business analysis. You end up spending as much time rethinking the business process as you do worrying about executing everything in Salesforce. Instead, look for simple use cases. For example, implementing an agent summary field to help users easily see what's going on with an account without having to scroll through a bunch of records. "All of those little use cases that maybe are too specific for a flow," Kacie says, "we can solve them with Agentforce and natural language." And over time, the simple solutions add up. Keeping AI work inside Salesforce supports better security Even if you're not already using Agentforce, people in your organization are already using AI. The problem is that they're often exporting data over to their LLM of choice, which creates all sorts of security vulnerabilities. That's why Kacie recommends enabling an agent to assist your users. You can use your model of choice, and it'll be grounded in your Salesforce data and protected by your security configuration. "It shows users that there's a safe place to get the answers they want without having to worry about breaking company policies," Kacie says. Make sure to listen to my full conversation with Kacie about how to start small with Agentforce. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Salesforce 360 Blog Post: From the Farm to Flows: How One Trailblazer Built a Tech Career from Scratch Kacie's post on LinkedIn Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Kacie on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, we're talking with Kacie Molina about how admins can start small with Agentforce and still make a big impact. Kacie shares why the best AI ideas often come from listening closely to everyday user friction. The scattered preferences, repeated questions, messy exports, and those tiny gaps that slow teams down. We'll talk about building agents that are grounded in Salesforce powered by Flow and designed with trust and security in mind. Because the next generation of admins isn't just adding features, they're orchestrating safer, smarter systems where humans and agents work together. So give it a listen, click that subscribe button, share this episode with an admin who is ready to make AI even more practical for their users. And let's get Kacie on the podcast. So Kacie, welcome to the podcast. Kacie Molina: Thanks, Mike. I am super excited to be here today. Mike: Well, I'm excited to get you on. I was a rare occasion scrolling through LinkedIn and I came across a post that you had put up and it mentioned the AgentforceNow workshop that I think you were in one of mine or you'd been to one. Kacie Molina: I was in one of yours and it was done extremely well, might I say. Mike: You were. Oh, good. Well, I try hard. And you're talking about coming up with ideas and you'd had some ideas for agents and I thought, "Man, I just think we need some sort of agent brainstorm podcast." And so that's why I wanted to get you on. But we're going to talk about that. But before we get started, tell me a little bit about yourself, like how you got into Salesforce, what you do, all of the fun stuff. Kacie Molina: Absolutely. So I grew up in more rural USA, an Amish type community, so horse and buggy. Think maybe Little House on the Prairie, early 1800s. So did a lot of horse training and cheese making with my sister, tended gardens and animals. So my skills when I became an adult were fairly traditional. So as I was trying to translate, "What do I use my skills for?" I started nannying, childcare, and then I started my own sewing business. And during that phase, I was actually so bad at running...
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  • How MuleSoft Helps Salesforce Admins Build Better Agents

    How MuleSoft Helps Salesforce Admins Build Better Agents
    2026/07/09
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Mofeyi Oluwalana, Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about MuleSoft, Flow, Agentforce, and what happens when agents need to take action beyond Salesforce. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Mofeyi Oluwalana. MuleSoft creates agent-friendly business processes Agentforce can be truly transformative for our business processes, but sometimes it's easier said than done—especially when multiple platforms are involved. That's why I sat down with Mofeyi Oluwalana, Director of Product Management for MuleSoft. As Mofeyi explains, a problem many businesses run into when they're trying to implement AI is how to enable an agent to engage with something like a process that starts on a payment platform, goes through an OMS, and then ends up with a request to a warehouse for shipping. You can't just hand them the APIs and expect them to figure out the rest. That's where MuleSoft comes in. It gives you the building blocks you need to codify your workflows into something an agent can understand. Data mapping for real-time app integration Building an agent-friendly business process begins with data mapping. What do you need and where is it located? You also need to understand the triggers that kick off each part of the process. Does it start with a Slack message, or when an order is created? Often, these types of business processes don't start in the Salesforce ecosystem. MuleSoft allows you to translate these business requirements into APIs that an agent can use to take action. How to present to stakeholders As a product manager, Mofeyi frequently gives presentations to stakeholders, so I wanted to know if she had any advice for admins. "The most important thing when I walk into any room, regardless of the stakeholder, is who are they and what do they care about? Your ability to persuade and influence is largely due to your understanding of the three things that the people that you're talking to care about and how you align what you're talking about with those three things," she says. Make sure to listen to my full conversation with Mofeyi for more about MuleSoft and mapping your business processes. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast for a new episode every Thursday. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Salesforce Admins Blog Post: How MuleSoft Helps Admins Get the Most out of Agentforce Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Mofeyi on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, we're joined by Mofeyi Oluwalana, product management director at Salesforce to talk about MuleSoft, Flow, Agentforce, and what happens when agents need to take action beyond Salesforce. Now, for Salesforce admins, this conversation matters because agents are only as useful as the data, the actions, the permissions, and the business logic they can safely reach. So Mofeyi's going to explain to us why integrations are not just about moving data from one system to another. They're about helping Salesforce connect to the real processes your business depends on. We'll talk about the questions that admins should ask when working with other platform owners, how to think about triggers and data mapping and why business context is so important when you're designing actions for humans and agents. So give this episode a listen, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, share it with another Salesforce admin who's maybe thinking about how Salesforce could connect to the rest of their business. And with that, let's get Mofeyi on the podcast. So Mofeyi, welcome to the podcast. Mofeyi Oluwalana: Thank you so much. Mike: I'm excited. We don't do a whole lot of episodes outside a core platform. And I know my Salesforce admins ... My ... The Salesforce admins of the world work everywhere and especially now with Agentforce and agents and really just the whole bringing people together and giving a complete view of data, integrating data and working with MuleSoft and tools like that are super important. So I'm glad to have you on. I'm glad we got connected, but let's start off and learn a little bit about you. What was your path to Salesforce and becoming a product management director? Mofeyi Oluwalana: Yes. So I started at Salesforce a little over four years ago. I actually came through the APM program, also known as the Associate Product Manager Program. It's a two-year rotational program for folks coming out of university, getting their start in product. So I was able to come in through that program. I did three rotations all across Salesforce. I spent some time in Commerce Cloud working on how to run promotions on Black Friday. Mike: Oh, holy cow. Mofeyi Oluwalana: And I spent a lot of ...
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  • How Do Admins Set Up Agentforce Coworker in Salesforce

    How Do Admins Set Up Agentforce Coworker in Salesforce
    2026/06/25
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Parth Shah, Director of Product Marketing, and Rikke Hovgaard, Director of Product Management for the Agentforce Coworker team at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about Agentforce Coworker and what it means for the way admins help teams get work done. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Parth Shah and Rikke Hovgaard. Agentforce Coworker brings AI into everyday business work AI has been a game changer for coding, but integrating it into normal business processes has proved more challenging. That's where Agentforce Coworker comes in. It's an autonomous AI teammate, grounded in your enterprise data from day one. For this episode, I sat down with with Rikke Hovgaard, Director of Product Management, and Parth Shah, Director of Product Marketing, to find out what Agentforce Coworker is and how it can help admins bring new tools to their team. Salesforce permissions remain central to trust and access Trust is central to any conversation about AI. New tools are exciting, but you need to be sure that they won't give people access to data they shouldn't be able to see. Luckily, Agentforce Coworker works around the permissions you've already configured in Salesforce. It's simple for admins, and keeps those guardrails in place. As far as configuration goes, Rikke and Parth are all about keeping it simple and transparent. While Agentforce Coworker automatically inherits the security and governance settings that are already in your org, you also have special configuration options just for the agent. Admins can connect more data through Data Cloud and Slack For Rikke, Agentforce Coworker is especially useful for summarizing her team's Slack conversations. She can quickly understand which team member is working on which issue, and where she might need to lend a helping hand. At the end of the day, Agentforce Coworker gives you a conversational interface to do more with your Salesforce data. "Coworker does the work in the background so that your team can actually focus on what matters," Parth says. Listen to the full episode for more from Parth and Rikke about Agentforce Coworker. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast to catch us every Thursday. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Introducing Agentforce Coworker Salesforce Admins Podcast Episode: How Headless 360 Helps Admins Bring Salesforce Anywhere Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Rikke on LinkedIn Parth on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, we're talking with Parth Shah and Rikke Hovgaard about Agentforce Coworker and what it means for the way admins help teams get work done. Now, this isn't just about turning on another AI feature. It's about bringing trusted business context, permissions, data, and automation together so users can ask better questions and take action faster. Parth and Rikke are going to walk us through how Coworker connects to Salesforce data, how it respects existing permissions, and how it gives admins a simpler path to roll out and governance. So, be sure to listen in, press that subscribe button if you haven't already. And I would always appreciate it if you could share this episode with a fellow Salesforce admin. And with that, let's get Parth and Rikke on the podcast. So, Parth and Rikke, welcome to the podcast. Rikke Hovgaard: Thank you for having us. Parth Shah: Thank you. Mike: Well, I'm glad we could get you both on. This is the first time I've had a product manager and a product marketing major on a podcast. Usually, one of them has something too important to do that they bail out, but I'm bringing people together. It's going to be great. So, we're going to talk about Agentforce Coworker, but first I want to learn a little bit about each of you. Parth, I'm just going to start with you because you were the first one to bug me in my Slack DMs about Agentforce Coworker. So, I'd love to learn just a little bit about how you came to Salesforce and what you currently are working on. Parth Shah: Yeah, absolutely. Slack makes it really easy to bug my Coworkers, especially my favorite ones. I sent a lot of emojis. So, sorry, Mike. Mike: Oh, I'm your favorite. Parth Shah: Yeah. So, a bit about me. I grew up in Ohio, was a chemical engineer in undergrad, which really I love to build things and I love to, I guess, solve complex problems. And then when I graduated, I didn't want to go work in a plant, in a chemical plant. And so, I ended up going into sales within oil and gas. Did that for about three years, really understood how to actually talk to customers and what their pain points are. And then switched over to a really early stage startup in education technology, really passionate ...
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  • What are Security Essentials for Salesforce Admins

    What are Security Essentials for Salesforce Admins
    2026/06/18
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Laura Pelkey, Director of Customer Security Communications and Engagement, and Sabrina Simeroth, Product Manager for Security Center at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about security essentials for the summer and how Salesforce is helping admins protect their data. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Laura Pelkey and Sabrina Simeroth. Why admins are a target Security doesn't take a summer vacation. And while AI is helping all of us do more things faster than ever before, it's also helping hackers deliver new types of targeted attacks at scale. And as privileged users, admins are finding themselves in the crosshairs. Luckily, Salesforce is rolling out key security enhancements over the summer to help you protect your org. I sat down with Laura Pelkey and Sabrina Simeroth to talk about what threats are out there and how you can be prepared. MFA requirements to protect your credentials Because AI makes it easier than ever to imitate someone's writing style or even their voice, the biggest threats that Laura and her team are seeing are different variations of phishing attacks. In the end, it's all about getting someone's credentials and then using that access to do damage. That's why Salesforce is requiring all customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), as opposed to the gentle nudging we've done in the past. However, MFA can still be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, so admins and other privileged users will need to use a stronger phishing resistant MFA. Finally, Salesforce will require step-up authentication for users attempting a sensitive or unusual action, like exporting a large file. I don't have to tell you that these kinds of changes can often be met with resistance. Laura recommends framing things in terms of what they protect your users from. Does a salesperson really want a hacker to email everyone on their contact list from their account? It's not about making you jump through hoops—it's about protecting you from real risks. Security Center Essentials and Health Check give admins a central view We also checked in with Sabrina about how her team is trying to make it easier to get a handle on essential security configurations across the platform and what settings are most critical. Coming in July, the new Security Center Essentials will let you see everything in one place instead of having to wade through a bunch of permissions and toggles. Health Check will help you prioritize which changes will get you the biggest bang for your buck, and help you track your security posture over time. "It's all about allowing admins to navigate the security space in a way that helps to reduce the complexity and provide some guidance," Sabrina says. There's a lot more from Laura and Sabrina about security on Salesforce and what's coming next, so make sure to listen to the full episode. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast to catch us every Thursday. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Salesforce Help: Security-Related Product Updates to the Salesforce Platform: User Identity, Data Protection, and Access Controls Trailhead: Use Health Check to Scan Your Security Configurations Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Laura on LinkedIn Sabrina on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike Gerholdt: This week on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we're talking security with Laura Pelkey and Sabrina Simeroth. The threat landscape is moving fast and with AI in the mix, attackers are getting better at targeting privileged users like Salesforce Admins. But in this episode, it isn't about fear, it's about readiness, trust, and the systems admins can put in place to protect our orgs. We'll cover MFA enforcement, phishing-resistant MFA, step-up authentication, and how Security Center Essentials gives admins a clearer view of the settings that matter most because today's admin isn't just managing features. They're designing secure, trusted systems that help businesses move forward. So, let's move forward with this podcast and get Laura and Sabrina on. So, Laura and Sabrina, welcome to the podcast. Laura Pelkey: Hello? Sabrina Simeroth: Thank you. Thanks for having us. Mike Gerholdt: Absolutely. Well, it's always good to talk security. I feel like I was watching the news the other day and they talk about kids when they go to school and then they have the summer off and there's that summer slump of information. I feel like maybe over the summer we kind of have a security slump because we're taking time off and we're going to water slides and watching tornadoes in the Midwest, but maybe I'm just crazy thinking about that. Laura, why don't you catch us up and tell us what's going on with security and some ...
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  • How Agentforce Helped Build a Food Waste Solution in Days

    How Agentforce Helped Build a Food Waste Solution in Days
    2026/06/11
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Parth Sevak, Director of Technology and Principal Architect at Incepta. Join us as we chat about how Parth built a multi-agent system designed to connect surplus food with the people and organizations that need it the most and won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize at the TDX Hackathon. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Parth Sevak. The Hackathon project focused on reducing food waste If you listened to last week's episode with Alexandra Iyer, you know that Agentforce for Good was a popular problem at this year's Agentforce Hackathon at TDX. Contestants took on big issues like nonprofit volunteer coordination and disaster relief. That's why I was so excited to sit down with Parth Sevak, whose project Harvest Bridge won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize. Harvest Bridge is a multi-agent application that connects food donors with organizations near them. As Parth explains, food waste is a serious problem. According to the UN's World Food Programme, about 318 million people are facing acute hunger today. "In North America, 30-40% of the food that is produced never gets eaten," he says. So he decided that this would be the perfect problem to tackle for the Agentforce Hackathon at TDX. Simple integrations and out-of-the-box tools Under the hood, Harvest Bridge features multi-agent coordination between four agents to handle donor intake, food matching, volunteer logistics, and reporting analytics. While it sounds incredibly complicated, Parth is quick to point out that 80% of the work was done in configuration with out-of-the-box admin tools. Parth needed to write some Apex to do specific things like geo-matching, which he vibe-coded with the Claude plugin for Agentforce. Crucially, he didn't have to write glue code to make everything work between Agentforce, Data 360, automations he built in Salesforce, Slack, and Tableau. "All of it just worked like a charm," he says, "five years ago, that integration story would have been months, if not years." How to get started building Agentforce solutions In just a few days, Parth was able to build an autonomous, multi-agent system that uses Agentforce, Data 360, Slack, and Tableau to match surplus food with local organizations and coordinate delivery in under 90 minutes. If you're looking to get started with Agentforce, Parth recommends jumping on Trailhead as your first step. The Agentforce Specialist certification gives you the tools you need to start building, and then it's all about getting your hands dirty. Make sure to listen to the full conversation with Parth Sevak about how he built Harvest Bridge and won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more UN World Food ProgrammeTrailhead: Agentforce Specialist certificationSalesforce Admins Podcast Episode: Agentforce for Good Shows the Power of Inclusive InnovationWatch the Demo Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Salesforce Admins on LinkedInSalesforce Admins on XMike on Bluesky socialMike on ThreadsMike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we're talking with Parth Sevak about how a real world food waste solution went from idea to working system in just days using Agentforce. Drawing from a challenge that impacts millions globally, Parth built HarvestBridge, which is a multi-agent system designed to connect surplus food with the people and organizations that need it most. Now, this was part of the TDX26 Hackathon Challenge and what makes this conversation the most compelling isn't just the technology, it's how admins and architects can really orchestrate data automation, AI agents and human coordination together without months of integration work. We also get into what it means to design a trustworthy system where humans stay in control while AI handles scale and speed. So, if you've ever been wondering about how Agentforce changes the role of the Salesforce admin from builder to system orchestrator, this episode's for you. Be sure to subscribe, share the episode with your team, your friends, your local Salesforce admin user group and let us know what kind of real world problems you'd solve with Agentforce. But for now, we're going to get Parth on the podcast. So, Parth, welcome to the podcast. Parth Sevak: Thanks, Mike. Really glad to be here. Mike: Well, I'm glad to have you. So, if everything shakes out, the episode before this will be the episode with the Agentforce for Good People, but sometimes scheduling is what it is. But I was at TDX this year and we had Hackathon winners and you were part of the Agentforce Hackathon. And so, that's how I got connected with you. But I think before we get into that, I'd love to know a little bit about how you got started in the ...
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  • Agentforce for Good Shows the Power of Inclusive Innovation

    Agentforce for Good Shows the Power of Inclusive Innovation
    2026/06/04
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Alexandra Iyer, Director of Marketing Strategy and AI Transformation, and Global EVP of Abilityforce at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about the Agentforce for Good Hackathon at TDX and what happens when technology, accessibility, and community come together to solve real-world problems. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Alexandra Laxmi Iyer. Agentforce for Good expands AI beyond business problems This year, we added a new twist to the types of problems you could solve for at the TDX Hackathon. We called it Agentforce for Good, and it offered participants a way to work on some big problems: food insecurity, nonprofit volunteer coordination, disaster relief, and more. That's why I'm so excited to bring Alexandra "X" Iyer on the pod. She's the Global EVP of Abilityforce, Salesforce's internal business unit for people with disabilities and their allies. They've been running an internal accessibility hackathon for years, and Agentforce for Good grew out of a desire to open it up to the community and broaden its scope. "Builders who probably never thought of themselves as social impact developers shipped working Agentforce solutions for all sorts of big problems," X says, and 62% of this year's Hackathon entries were solving for Agentforce for Good. Inclusive design creates better technology for everyone "When we are challenged with designing for the edge, you make the center better," X says. Finding challenges that force you to push tools like Tableau, Slack, and Agentforce in new ways helps you uncover capabilities that you might not have otherwise thought about. As X likes to put it, "Good design is just good design, full stop." Going forward, X and her team are looking for ways to expand Agentforce for Good beyond TDX. Consider this a call for participation, and she encourages you to get in touch to volunteer or bring Agentforce for Good to a community event near you. Lived experience is a valuable design credential "One of the main things I would love for people to take away from our conversation is that your lived experience is a credential," X says. "It's not a distraction." After all, designing around new challenges is how we come up with innovative solutions that nobody else would have thought of. Your unique perspective is valuable. Make sure to listen to the full episode for more insights from X. Next week, we'll hear from the winner of the TDX Hackathon, so make sure you're subscribed to the Salesforce Admins Podcast. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Trailblazer Community Group: Abilityforce Salesforce Equality Groups Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social X on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Love our podcasts? Subscribe today or review us on iTunes! Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, we're talking about what happens when technology, accessibility, and community come together to solve real world problems. I'm joined by X or X, who is the director of marketing, strategy and AI transformation at Salesforce and Vice President of Abilityforce to discuss the Agentforce for Good Hackathon that happened at TDX. Now we're going to find out that it started as an employee-led accessibility initiative. And has grown into a community movement bringing together admins, developers, partners, and customers to build solutions that address challenges like food insecurity, disaster relief, and volunteer coordination. We're going to talk about why designing for inclusion leads to better outcomes, how AI can help scale impact, and why your lived experience might be one of the most valuable design credentials you have. So if you're thinking about how data automation, AI agents work together to create meaningful change not just inside your organization, but in the world around it, I promise you this episode is for you. So let's get Alexandra on the podcast. So Alexandra, welcome to the podcast. Alexandra: Thank you for having me, Mike. Mike: I think it's going to be a fun conversation because we're talking about Agentforce for Good today. So let's get started to learn a little bit about you and your path to Salesforce and your path to the Agentforce for Good Hackathon. Alexandra: Absolutely. Thank you for asking. And by the way, I go by X for short, so feel free to call me X. Mike: Perfect. X: I'm the director of marketing strategy and AI transformation for our customer success and partner marketing team here at Salesforce. And I'm also the vice president for Abilityforce, our employee resource group for people with disabilities and their allies. And when we're talking about the Agentforce for Good Hackathon, this is really a moment where these two worlds actually collided. Normally, they wouldn't collide, but the ...
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  • Salesforce Admins Can Reduce Risk With Proactive Security

    Salesforce Admins Can Reduce Risk With Proactive Security
    2026/05/28
    Salesforce Admins Can Reduce Risk With Proactive Security Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Kate Lessard, Lead Admin Evangelist at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about why security is the foundation for how data, automation, and AI work together. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Kate Lessard. Why strong security is proactive, not reactive Security can often feel like the elephant in the room. Everyone knows it's important, but the amount of work needed to do it right can feel daunting. Thorny problems like accumulated tech debt and organizational inertia can make you feel like you're better off not talking about it. That's why I sat down with Kate Lessard. This month, she ran a workshop called Security in Action to highlight the simple steps you can take to strengthen the security posture of your org. She got hands-on with an example org to demonstrate how to use Health Check to identify and fix security problems. It's all about taking a proactive approach to security, rather than waiting for something to happen to you. Your Health Check score is a security action plan "Health Check is no longer just a list of settings for you to review," Kate says, "it's your dynamic risk mitigation dashboard." Issues are sorted into four categories: high-risk, medium-risk, low-risk, and informational. There is also a status to rate the level of urgency for each issue: critical, warning, or compliant. Health Check is also customizable. If your organization's security policies are different than the Salesforce Baseline Standard, you can download an XML file and tweak the criteria. You can compare your policies to what's recommended by Salesforce, and maybe identify some low-hanging fruit. In short, your Health Check score gives you a prioritized list of which security issues need to be addressed first so you can walk into a meeting with stakeholders with a solid plan of action. Helpful reports for user management Security and user management go hand in hand, and Kate recommends some reports that admins can run to help with governance. First of all, the Active System Administrator Report can help you find users who might have more access than they need. This can often be an issue in older orgs where it was easier to give someone admin access than to sit down and solve the permission problem. Kate also likes to run a report on Reports, to keep track of what her users are interacting with the most. As Kate says, it's all about making a shift towards a security model built around permission set best practices. As admins, we need to find a way to fit security seamlessly into our organization's business processes, and vice versa. There may be an upfront cost, but it's all about making security easy in the long run. Listen to the full conversation for more from Kate about security and Health Check. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Salesforce Admins Blog: Securing Your Org: From Reactive to Proactive Kate Clicks Through It: Protect Your Salesforce Org With Health Check Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Kate on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, I sit down with Salesforce Evangelist Kate Lessard to unpack why security is really no longer a side conversation for admin, but the foundation to how data, humans, automation and AI all work together. We're going to cover her new security workshop that she led last week, and talk about health check upgrades, permission set security models, and of course how Salesforce admins can move from reacting to security problems to proactively designing trusted systems. We do touch on a little bit of governance, user access, and why secure data is the backbone of every successful AI implementation. So if you've ever wondered how modern Salesforce admins evolve from feature builders into stewards of trust, this episode is for you. And with that, let's get Kate on the podcast. Kate, welcome back to the podcast. Kate Lessard: Hey, thanks for having me back. Excited to be here. Mike: Well, it feels like a lot of relevant things for admins are coming out of your camp lately from True to the Core Deep Dive to last week's security and action. I feel like there should be like a thunderclap after that. Security and action. Dun, dun, dun. Kate Lessard: Yeah, absolutely. Data and access. Mike: Right. Mm-hmm. Yep. Like a comic book hero. And then you got to do the comic book land. Anyway, totally off topic. Look at that. 30 seconds into the podcast, we're already in comic books. People- Kate Lessard: I mean, I am here for it. Admins are superheroes, especially when ...
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  • Can AI Help Salesforce Admins Build Apps More Efficiently?

    Can AI Help Salesforce Admins Build Apps More Efficiently?
    2026/05/21
    Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Nick McOwen, Senior Salesforce Administrator at Alpine Intel. Join us as we chat about his path to Salesforce and the TDX workshop he gave about the development lifecycle, sandboxes, and data masking. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Nick McOwen. Nick's unconventional path into Salesforce Nick is the second touring musician I've had on the show this month—I promise I'm not raiding a recording studio somewhere just to find podcast guests. He was waiting tables in between gigs when a guest called him over to ask if he might want to try something different. A chance encounter turned into an entry-level job and, eventually, an admin certification. I caught up with Nick fresh off his workshop at TDX, where he shared how he uses sandboxes and data masking to build new agents and apps for his organization. Learning better development habits and sandbox management They say every warning sign has a story behind it, and the same goes for best practices in Salesforce. Luckily, Nick had Salesforce MVP Kelly Bentubo around to show him the ropes. He learned about the importance of consistent naming practices, managing user expectations, and having a structured deployment process instead of building in production. Recently, Nick was tasked with building a new recruiting app for his organization. He was able to spin up a sandbox with an app they had already built and, using that foundation, quickly reconfigure it to meet the new requirements. Once the app was in good shape, Nick moved it up to a staging sandbox environment for testing. There, he could copy data over from production and use data masking to keep everything secure. Once everything was thoroughly vetted, it was finally ready to be deployed into production. How Agentforce Vibes can help admins collaborate with developers Recently, Nick's been taking advantage of Agentforce Vibes to work more closely with his dev team. He was able to write an Apex class and, while the code isn't perfect, he was able to go through it with a developer to learn what was working, what wasn't, and why. "It was a great launching point," he says, "something that would have taken days was written in an hour." For Nick, the most important thing admins need to do to get the most out of Agentforce Vibes is to learn the basic underlying principles of Apex and coding. It's just like using a calculator—you still need to have some way of knowing if the answer you're getting is in the right ballpark. Make sure to listen to my full conversation with Nick for more on sandboxes, data masking, testing, and why AI is a new opportunity to grow. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode. Podcast swag Salesforce Admins on the Trailhead Store Learn more Salesforce Admins Podcast Episode: How Headless 360 Helps Admins Bring Salesforce Anywhere Salesforce Admins Podcast Episode: Why Pattern Recognition Matters for Salesforce Admins Salesforce 360 Blog: Your AI Could Be Better: The 4 Tools You Need for Continuous Improvement Admin Trailblazers Group Admin Trailblazers Community Group Social Nick on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on LinkedIn Salesforce Admins on X Mike on Bluesky social Mike on Threads Mike on X Full show transcript Mike: This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, I'm joined by Nick McOwen, which means now I've started a trend of having former musicians who become Salesforce admins as guests. Anyway, Nick is going to show us how he went from touring in a band and waiting tables to leading Salesforce projects that involve sandboxes, data masking, deployment processes, and AI assisted development. We talk about the early build it in production and hope for the best admin days, how Agentforce Vibes is changing the way admins approach coding and why today's Salesforce admins are becoming orchestrators of systems instead of just builders of features. There's also a little Apex talk and surprisingly deep analogy involving semi-trucks and AI because you know my analogies and a confirmation that developers will always think their code is prettier. So hit subscribe, share this episode with your favorite Salesforce admin and let's get Nick on the podcast. So Nick, welcome to the podcast. Nick McOwen: Hey, Mike, it's great to be here. Mike: Well, I was introduced to you through a couple product managers at Salesforce that are always on the hunt for finding good Salesforce admins and you were also presenting with them in the admin track. So before we get to that, let's learn a little bit about Nick. How did Nick get started doing Salesforce and be in the ecosystem? Nick McOwen: Well, it was a complete fluke. I had been touring in a band and we just kind of stopped playing music and I was waiting tables at a country club and one of the members was, "Do you want to keep waiting tables?" I said, "Not particularly." ...
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