From the stage of the 2025 Columbia University Coaching Conference, My Robot Boss host Devon McConnell shares her award-finalist talk. Drawing on four years of research at Oxford and her work with coaching and therapy clients, Devon discusses a hidden cause of workplace burnout: the absence of someone who truly has your back. She explores how attachment science reframes our understanding of leadership, trust, and emotional labor—and what changes when AI begins taking on those relational roles at work.