Employees are scared for their safety after Trump's win: Nooyi

"Do you have a box of tissues here," Nooyi, a staunch Clinton supporter, said at the New York Times Dealbook Conference when asked how she felt on the morning of November 9, when Trump won the presidential election.

"I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees. They were all in mourning. Our employees were all crying. The question that they are asking, especially those who are not white 'Are we safe', women are asking 'Are we safe', LGBT people are asking 'Are we safe'," she said at the conference.

"The first thing that we all have to do is to assure everybody in the US that they are safe, nothing has changed because of this election. What we heard was election talk and that we will all come together and unify the country," she said. "The process of democracy happened, we just have to let life go on. We have to come togethe  and life has to go on," she added.

Nooyi voiced concern that real issues facing the country were not talked about in the election campaign and serious discussions cannot happen in 'bursts of sound bites' or 140 characters on social media. Nooyi emphasised that at some point the nation will have to pick up the big issues of technological unemployment, global trade, immigration - all of which needs reform and have serious conversation about that.

"Who is going to call for that dialogue, who will participate in that dialogue and what are we going to do about the dialogue are all big questions. I don't know how we can have it in short bursts of sound bites. It would be counterproductive to do it in sound bites," she said.