Sash Mohapatra

Sash Mohapatra

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20 years at Microsoft, engineer to Director of Data & AI Sales, Capital Markets

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Sash Mohapatra will transform you into a systems thinker

Sash Mohapatra spent 20 years at Microsoft, moving from customer engineering to Director of AI Sales. He led cloud and ML adoption for Fortune 500 clients. After being laid off in 2023, he used AI to navigate his own career transition and built a system for doing it well.

Now he runs riftlab.ai, where consults for companies on AI adoption - training teams, building agents and helping leaders navigate the AI revolution.

He believes that human ingenuity in the AI revolution can be preserved and scaled through participation. Lean in, learn how to orchestrate AI, be the human in the loop and amplify your leverage and capabilities with AI.

Previously at Microsoft
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Alliances & Partnerships Leader | GTM, Co-Sell & Executive Alignment | 25+ Yrs P&L Ownership

AI Orchestration Certification for Business Leaders: Build your personal AI OS

Completed the maven course. Sash was the reason it worked. 5 out of 5, no hedge on that. It was not a generic one. Two things from the foundational layer i'm going to use, not just remember. 1. The orchestrator model, for running real work with AI instead of around it. define the end state first. plan the work with AI, not after it's already done. break the problem down, then delegate the pieces. stay in the loop and build the system so it's reusable the second time, not rebuilt from scratch every time. 2. The AIM method, for actually getting something useful out of a prompt. ask with purpose, don't guess. get the what and the why, the why usually matters more than people think. include everything, the do's and don'ts, the roles, the constraints, what the output should look like. then modify and redefine once you see the result. name what worked, be precise about what changes, and change one or two things at a time instead of rewriting the whole ask. Through the foundational layer now, and rating it a full 5 isn't me being generous. it's what the coaching actually earned. Curious enough about where this goes that i'm pushing into advanced mode next, to see how far it scales against harder problems. Grateful for the start. ready for the next one.

Carl

Live cohort
Sash did a great job! AI is complex and everyone understands at different levels. Sash took the time to help people one on one, showed that he truly cared and certainly has a deep understanding of the ever changing AI field. I felt like the course could continue on for weeks more to help me keep learning. Definitely recommend.

Partha

Live cohort
You will be able to get such course everywhere across all the platform but but but......mind it here..... Selecting a good tutor is the most important factor to get your thinking into your brain. Sash is too good and he knows how to pass on his learnings to a non techie guy like me.

Ronnie

Live cohort
Sash Mohaptra's session of AI Orchestration for Knowledge Workers delivered exactly what it promised: frameworks I could use the same day, not just theory. The Orchestrator Method gave me a concrete process for delegating to AI instead of guessing at prompts. The AIM framework (Ask with purpose, Include details, Modify and refine) is now how I structure every non-trivial prompt. And the walk through of context windows, token limits, and the "lost in the middle" problem explained behavior I'd noticed in long AI chats but never understood. He backed every concept with real examples — the news classification agent, the article ranking system, the model selection trade offs between Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku. That made it concrete instead of abstract. The examples we went over were more realistic of the issues we face everyday and the idea to work on a self project/skill was more to the point. It helped me know where I was missing and how I could correct it with your guidance. I would highly recommend anyone who wants to put AI to use to attend the session. Rohinton

Rajesh

Live cohort
Great Learning....very personalized handholding, awesome resources to follow through