Entrepreneur · Author · Business Educator
Sahil Khanna
Sahil Khanna is an Indian entrepreneur, business educator, and creator known for Intellectual Indies and Lapaas. At Indies Education, he turns business research and operating experience into rigorous, practical lessons.
- 684
- Published lessons
- 1M+
- Primary-channel subscribers
- 2017
- Intellectual Indies founded
Background and practice
From engineering fundamentals to practical business education
Sahil’s published profiles describe a transition from chemical engineering into marketing and management. That combination—systems thinking from engineering and commercial judgment from business—continues to shape how he explains complex ideas.
He founded Intellectual Indies in 2017 and built it into a business-learning content ecosystem covering company case studies, startups, marketing, strategy, and candid founder conversations. He also founded Lapaas, a New Delhi digital-marketing and education business. Sahil describes his entrepreneurial journey as including the eventual exit from the agency he built.
Across workshops, courses, consulting, and digital media, Sahil’s work has reached students, startup founders, legacy-business owners, and operating teams. His primary Intellectual Indies channel has more than one million subscribers. Sahil’s public profiles describe a combined audience above two million across his content ecosystem, while Lapaas course pages report more than 140,000 entrepreneurs reached through its educational work.
At Indies Education, Sahil serves as author and lead educator. Every lesson is designed to go beyond definitions: readers should understand the mechanism, examine evidence and limits, apply a framework, and leave with an action plan and checklist.
Elsewhere
Profiles and source notes
Written by Sahil Khanna
Latest business lessons
Evidence-led chapters designed to move from understanding to action.
David Rock’s SCARF Model: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to SCARF model, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Emotional Intelligence: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to emotional intelligence, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Boost Your Interpersonal Skills: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to improving interpersonal skills, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Five Ways to Build Rapport Online: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to building rapport online, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
10 Tips for Working at a Client’s Site
A rigorous workplace guide to working at a client site, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Working With Powerful People: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to working with powerful people, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Managing Your Boss: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to managing your boss, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Motivating Managers: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to motivating managers, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
Working With Rivals: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to working with rivals, with an evidence-aware model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, power and privacy safeguards, and field exercises that turn labels into observable professional practice.
How to Handle Personal Relationships at Work
A rigorous, practical guide to handle consensual personal relationships with disclosure, boundaries, recusal, privacy, anti-retaliation, and attention to power and policy. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Assess Skills
A rigorous, practical guide to assess emotional awareness, interpretation, regulation, empathy, and relationship behaviour through evidence rather than a global label. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Professional Networking Through Real Contribution
A rigorous, practical guide to build reciprocal professional relationships through relevant contribution, curiosity, trust, boundaries, and long-term stewardship rather than transactional contact collection. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.