The Orchestrator Mindset: Principles for working with AI

Hosted by Sash Mohapatra

Tue, Apr 21, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

Free to join

Invite your network

Go deeper with a course

Applied AI for Knowledge Work
Sash Mohapatra
View syllabus

What you'll learn

A four-principle framework for delegating real work to AI

Define the Outcome First. Deconstruct, then Delegate. Meta-Plan with AI. Build Systems, Not Outputs.

The four principles applied to a real pro task, live

One task - decomposed, delegated to AI, and delivered, using all four principles in real time.

Where agents fit and how to orchestrate them

See how the four principles scale from a single prompt to a multi-agent system.

Why this topic matters

Robert Half's 2026 hiring report calls AI literacy a top up-skilling priority and defines it as knowing what to delegate, giving structured instructions, checking output, and being aware of risks. That's the orchestration mindset: a delegation skill, applied to AI. This lesson introduces a four-principle framework that makes it practical and repeatable, with real examples across professional work.

You'll learn from

Sash Mohapatra

AI educator & Builder | 20 Years in Microsoft in customer engineering and sales

Sash Spent two decades at Microsoft - training thousands of professionals, guiding Fortune 500 companies through cloud transformations, and leading Data and AI sales for the largest global banks. Today he runs his businesses entirely on AI, from research to building software. He teaches Applied AI for Knowledge Work on Maven and consults through riftlab.ai

Previously at

Microsoft

Sign up to join this lesson

By continuing, you agree to Maven's Terms and Privacy Policy.