Who We Are
Our Beginning
- For the past 30 years, Native Hawaiian Organization Charity (NHOC) has been partnered with the Native Hawaiian Board of Health, five Native health care systems, and numerous Native Hawaiian Organizations to deliver traditional healing services to communities in need.
- NHOC developed the only existing constitutional law treatise on the history of traditional Native Hawaiian medicinal practices and drafted the currently enacted Hawaii State Healers Law.
- Further, NHOC implemented a model template that has successfully incubated and then established new businesses in Hawaii that currently commercially extend to regions on the U.S. Continent.
Our Evolution
- Lawelawe is a Hawaiian word meaning “to care for others.” The Lawelawe brand of companies was created to support the parent company’s nonprofit initiatives dedicated to uplifting the Hawaiian culture.
- Lawelawe Management Group (LMG) was founded in March 2020 to offer managed operational and administrative services in support of the Lawelawe portfolio of companies.
- Back-office functions consolidated into one central servicing organization increases efficiency and reduces the cost of operations. This streamlined structure has enabled the Lawelawe family of companies to grow through the creation of multiple new Native Hawaiian Owned (NHO) companies.
Today
- Due to our Native status, industry expertise, and our ability to leverage various Federal programs, our motto is “Lawelawe Becomes What You Need Us to Become.”
- Lawelawe consists of 8 Native Hawaiian Owned (NHO) for profit subsidiaries. Our portfolio includes SBA certified 8(a), NHO small businesses, with a DCAA approved accounting system and facility clearances.
Our Services
Program Management & Business Transformation
- Program & Project Management
- Objective, Mission and Vision Planning and Execution
- Strategic Guidance and Planning
- Innovation and Modernization Advisory and Implementation
- Organizational Design and Workforce Management
- Change Management and Analytics, Strategy, Execution and Sustainment
Human Capital & Training
- Courseware Development
- Learning Management Systems
- Coaches, Facilitators & Instructors
- Diversity and Inclusion, Executive Core Qualifications & LMS
- WF Management & Performance
- Recruitment, Onboarding & Retention
- Employee Engagement, Performance Management
- Organizational Development (OD)
- Change Management
- Enterprise Transformation
Digital Solutions
- Cybersecurity
- Risk Management Framework
- IA/ML, Agile, Scrum
- IT Portfolio & Investment
- Help Desk
- Telecommunications
- Design & Development
- DevSecOps
- Human-Centered Design
- SW Dev & Testing
- Cloud
- Analytics & Visualization
Medical Staffing, Healthcare & Health IT Capability
- Physician
- Nurses
- Ancillary Support
- Credentialing
- Healthcare Providers
- Health Systems Administrators
- Subject Matter Experts
- Evidence-based Strategies.
- Health IT
- Clinical Informatics
- Biomedical Technicians
- Histocompatibility Lab Managers
- Clinic Staffing and Operations
Meet the Executives
Gerald (Gerry) Lam
President
Lawelawe Technology Services (LTech)
Gerald (Gerry) Lam
President, Lawelawe Technology Services (Lawelawe Tech)
Trained in history, traditions, genealogy, and lapaau by Luka Kinolau, Lillian Kahoalii, Alice Namakelua, Alina Paki Say-Fong and ‘Uniki lapa’au” from Papa Henry Auwae at Lapakahi. Gerry is a royal genealogist and keeper of ancient records. He is the last designated kahu of record for the Healing Stones in Waikiki. Gerry has represented numerous native Hawaiian cultural interests both culturally and legally and has written legislation concerning native Hawaiian cultural practices in re indigenous Hawaiian fundamental constitutional rights.
Gerry’s professional experience includes Wall Street mergers & acquisitions; small business; financial systems structuring; accounting systems; quantitative analysis; human resources and labor deployments; risk & crisis management. Gerry has authored legislation in Hawaii and Washington D.C.
His passion is serving Hawaiian communities as a lapa’au ministering to kupuna, hospital patients, teaching Hawaiian medicine, and providing family kukakuka and pule.
Hawaiian Ancestry
Matriarchal birthright: Ke’alohilanikikaupe’aokalani and Ali’i Paki to Kapahupineakaleikoa, Paki and Keopuhiwa-Paki to me as Nalikolauokalani-lanikaula-Paki
Education
- Kamehameha Schools
- BYU, Provo – BA Political Science
- BYU Law School – JD
- U. of Denver Law School/College of Accounting LL.M. Taxation Law/Master of Tax Accounting
- U. of Penn, Wharton MBA