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// ABOUT LAWRENCE

A builderwho coaches.

I’m Lawrence Hiner IV. For twenty-plus years I’ve helped organizations turn plans into the everyday behavior that delivers them, in telecom, utilities, public health, and California’s Community Action network.

// DROP HEADSHOT
Lawrence Hiner IV
linkedin.com/in/lawrencehiner

Strategic plan implementation, leadership development, and learning design for mission-driven organizations. Based in West Sacramento. Twenty-plus years in learning and development, from corporate training floors to a 60-agency statewide network.

// HOW I GOT HERE

The short version.

I started in corporate learning as a sales trainer at Verizon. I was good at it, and I won awards for it. But selling never felt like the work I wanted to be doing.

People management training felt more honest and more human. That’s where I found the tools I still build with.

DiSC, MBTI, and later CliftonStrengths became my foundation. In 2012 I co-founded Workforce Equanimity and built the firm around those tools. The Intentional Learning Organization, the core of what’s now the L4 Framework, came out of that work.

In 2018 I joined CalCAPA and spent eight years leading training and technical assistance for California’s Community Action network. That’s where I learned what it takes to carry one plan through 60 organizations, and to build systems that keep running after you leave.

The thread through all of it: people do their best work when the work fits who they are. That’s what I help organizations design for.

// TRACK RECORD

Where the work
has been done.

2018 TO 2026
CalCAPA
Director of Training and Technical Assistance

Ran the network-wide training and technical assistance plan for California's 60 Community Action Agencies. Built five peer affinity groups, a webinar series that became a public LMS course, 18 to 32 conference sessions a year, and an Airtable and Softr system that's still in use.

2012 TO 2018
Workforce Equanimity
Co-founder and partner

Co-developed the Intentional Learning Organization. Delivered DiSC and Five Behaviors work for SMUD, Truckee Donner PUD, the California Department of Public Health, and Trimark Associates, plus contract L&D for Covered California, The Save Mart Companies, and Grocery Outlet.

2004 TO 2012
Verizon
Sales Trainer to Training Supervisor

Master Trainer and trainer-of-trainers. Led a 12-person regional retail training team covering Northern California and Hawaii.

// CREDENTIALS
Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach
Gallup
Nationally Certified ROMA Trainer
National ROMA Peer-to-Peer
Accredited Facilitator, The Five Behaviors
Wiley
Certified Behavioral Analyst (DISC)
Proception2
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate
Cornell University
// WHERE L4 CAME FROM

Co-developed
with Dr. Larry Hiner.

The ILO began as an extension of my father’s doctoral work on innovation. We built it into a working method together at Workforce Equanimity, and he contributed the Radical Adult Learning approach used in the HOW pillar.

The framework also names every model it stands on. We didn’t invent these. We wrote down the version that holds together when you use them in sequence.

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Donald Kirkpatrick
Four Levels of Evaluation
Designed in reverse, from results back to learning
Bob Mosher + Conrad Gottfredson
Five Moments of Learning Need
New, More, Apply, Solve, Change
Modern Adult Learning Principles
Radical Adult Learning
The delivery approach under HOW
Don Clifton
CliftonStrengths assessment
The default talent instrument
Gallup
Q12 engagement instrument
The default engagement read
Robert Brinkerhoff
Success Case Method
One model-agnostic alternative under HOW
// HOW I WORK

Alongside, not above.

Most training fails for a simple reason: people go back to an environment that doesn’t support the change. So I don’t start with a course. I start with your plan, your managers, and the behaviors the plan depends on.

The framework belongs to you the moment you understand it. My job is to make it usable on Monday morning, then make sure it holds. Whatever you do next is up to you.

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