LeiLani Cauthen is a futurist, niche media personality, AI developer, and a divergent voice in American K–12 education today. She is the CEO of the Learning Counsel, a national education research and media organization serving one of the largest K–12 audiences in the country, reaching more than 310,000 readers and over one million podcast followers.

LeiLani is also the founder of Knowstory, the first "Time AI" for Learning ecosystem platform, which uniquely offers pace-based AI cohorting and course generation. Known for her forward-looking perspective on the evolution of education, she provides educators with market insights examining how technology and policy are reshaping the landscape. She is widely recognized for her thought leadership articles, special reports, and her 2017 book, The Consumerization of Learning. Her influential work also includes the market predictions paper, “The Gravitational Pull Toward Decentralized Schooling,” and multiple papers on Human Intelligence Characteristics, the 9 Domains, and the 4 Nested Fields.