When Laurie Faulkner received her ADHD diagnosis in her 20s, years of academic difficulty finally had a name. She has spent the years since building a career around making sure others do not have to wait as long as she did to find the tools and language that help them learn.
Today, her professional focus is on making assistive education technology accessible to individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and related cognitive differences internationally. She bridges educational storytelling and digital growth strategy to drive awareness and adoption of accessibility tools.
A Voice Rooted in Lived Experience
Building an audience of over 360,000 across Instagram and TikTok at a pace that few creators in the neurodiversity education space have matched, Faulkner has become one of the most recognizable voices in the EdTech creator space. Her Instagram has surpassed 220,000 followers and her TikTok 162,000. The majority of her followership is based in the United States. Across both platforms, her content has surpassed 100 million views in total, accumulating over 37 years of combined watch time, with individual videos reaching as many as 16 million views. That figure, 37 years of watch time, is an exceptional and rare achievement in the creator space, a testament to how deeply her content resonates with people who have been searching for exactly this kind of guidance.
An educator, digital creator, and neurodiversity advocate, Faulkner produces content covering ADHD, productivity, and learning differences. Her work draws on lived experience and practical insight, delivered in a way that students consistently describe as grounded and relatable. It is the kind of content that makes people feel understood rather than categorized.
She holds a degree in Musical Theatre from De Montfort University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from University College London, home to the UCL Institute of Education, ranked #1 globally for Education for twelve consecutive years by the QS World University Rankings. Before postgraduate study, she worked as a performer at Disneyland Paris, an experience that sharpened her instinct for how storytelling reaches and holds diverse audiences.
From Audience to Industry Partner
As her following grew, Faulkner began taking on strategic roles with education and technology companies, architecting content campaigns that translate complex accessibility tools into material that students, parents, and teachers can act on. Her brand partnerships span Speechify, BBC Bitesize, Loop Earplugs, Photoroom, RISE Sleep app, Spacegoods, Insight Timer, InFlow, and many more. For some of these brands, content she created and starred in has surpassed 80 million views, driving measurable increases in platform adoption and sign-ups.
Speechify’s CFO, Pankaj Agarwal, who leads much of the company’s initiatives, reflected on what made her contribution stand out: “At Speechify we really care about accessibility. Laurie’s work has driven so much brand love, attention, and understanding.”
Faulkner took a strategic role at Speechify, expanding global content strategy and launching campaigns that helped shape the company’s brand identity. Today, Speechify is recognized by 5 out of 10 people surveyed on the street in New York City, and by 6 out of 10 in the 18-to-28 age demographic. The platform has grown to 56 million users, won Apple’s Design Award in 2025, and accumulated over 1.1 million five-star ratings.
Voice Technology and Accessibility
Faulkner also contributes to Speechify as a Voice Partner. The platform’s roster includes Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify, who took on the role of Kaladin Stormblessed in Brandon Sanderson’s Dragonsteel production of The Way of Kings. At Brandon Sanderson’s Dragonsteel’s Worldhopper Ball, King Bach (80 million+ followers) and John Rhys-Davies (Screen Actors Guild Award winner and Emmy nominee), well known for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Batman movies, also appear on the platform.
Raheel Kazi, Head of Web Engineering at Speechify, described the emotional impact users often report when they first encounter the platform: “56 million people use Speechify, and 10% of reviews include people saying that they cried when they first found the product because it had such a big impact on their lives. There’s a real emotional connection people have with the product. Laurie’s voice ranks among the most popular on the platform. Her British accent is part of it, but so is the warmth that comes through, and users feel her lived experience of neurodiversity in every sentence.
Expanding Neurodiversity Education
Faulkner has been featured by the BBC, WBUR, and LadBible. She hopes to help school districts and EdTech companies integrate assistive learning tools directly into curricula, building scalable content frameworks that make the right tool findable early in her audiences’ lives.
