Four Simple Words
Twenty years of stopping what costs organizations money: talent walking out, managers creating flight risks, and teams paralyzed by fear. We identify the invisible systems creating your biggest problems and turn them into competitive advantages.
Our Pattern Recognition Team
Pattern recognition takes perspective, courage and curiosity. It requires people who can see systems others miss, ask questions that make leaders uncomfortable, and stay grounded in humanity when the work gets hard. These are the humans behind Four Simple Words.
Curt Hammond | Service Champion
Curt has spent 20+ years building communities of service. Through his marketing, training and now his +AI mindset career, he has been exploring why good people leave and what makes them stay. He wears lots of hats and some of them even fit. Currently serving as Service Champion at Four Simple Words, he specializes in pattern recognition – helping organizations see the invisible systems that create disconnection and resistance.
No matter the role, Curt has yet to encounter a whiteboard he didn’t feel an immediate and deeply personal connection with.
Lakhdeep Singh Dhaliwal | Mattering Mindset Lead
Lakhdeep brings passion and purpose to front-line leadership in equity, inclusion, and human connection. His approach to difficult conversations, grounded in compassion, empathy, and genuine curiosity, is the heart and soul of our mattering work. Lucky’s wisdom, courage, and infectious joy have helped thousands discover that belonging isn’t just nice to have, it’s essential to business success.
When he’s not helping teams reconnect with their culture, he’s scoring goals with both his head and his feet on the soccer field.
Sean Yo | +ai Mindset Strategist
Sean is a technologist, systems designer, and relentless thinker. With decades of experience in software and ed-tech, he works at the intersection of technology, accessibility, and equity, building tools and teams that are useful, values-based, and deeply human. At Four Simple Words, Sean leads our +AI Mindset work, helping teams see AI as amplification rather than replacement. His superpower is making complex technology feel approachable and purposeful.
When he’s not helping teams partner with AI, Sean is probably redesigning a system that everyone else assumes is fine.
Sky Hammond | Learning Experience Designer
Sky is a creative strategist, researcher, and early adopter of emerging tech. As the youngest member of our team (literally a different generation), he brings a fresh perspective and a strong practical eye to our course design and delivery. His thoughts on AI have appeared in Municipal World. Sky bridges the gap between what organizations need to learn and how people actually learn best.
When he’s not designing learning experiences, Sky is testing whatever technology the rest of us will be using in two years.
A History Of Pattern Recognition
Years ago, my grandmother Elsie shared four simple words that changed how I see systems: “It’s not about me.” That shift from self-focus to service-focus revealed patterns I had been missing. Who gets heard and who doesn’t. Which systems connect people and which accidentally push them away.
After facilitating thousands of conversations and coaching hundreds of leaders, the same patterns kept appearing. Organizations struggled not because they lacked good intentions, but because they couldn’t see the systems working against their values. Teams wanted to belong but felt invisible. Managers cared deeply but didn’t know what to say. Leaders wanted to embrace change but defaulted to fear.
That is why Four Simple Words exists. When you can see the patterns, you can change them. And that is where better things begin.
Yours in service,
