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.
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.
How to Follow Up After Networking Respectfully
A rigorous, practical guide to follow up with specific context, genuine value, proportionate requests, consent, and reliable stewardship without spamming or forced intimacy. 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.
Finding Career Direction Through Evidence and Experiments
This evidence-based lesson explains finding career direction, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
Managing Your Career as a Learning Portfolio
This evidence-based lesson explains managing your career, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
Developing a Career Strategy That Learns
This evidence-based lesson explains career strategy, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
Personal Ansoff Matrix: Career Growth Without Recklessness
This evidence-based lesson explains personal Ansoff Matrix, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
Understanding Your Locus of Control Without Self-Blame
This evidence-based lesson explains locus of control, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
How to Get a Board Seat—and Govern Responsibly
This evidence-based lesson explains getting a seat on a board, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
The GIVE Model for a Positive Workplace Identity
This evidence-based lesson explains GIVE model, the person and labor-market evidence it requires, a worked career case, practical experiments, decision criteria, measurement, structural constraints, inclusion and ethics, and how to turn reflection into a revisable portfolio of action.
Personal SWOT Analysis: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to personal SWOT analysis, 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.
Benziger’s Personality Types: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to Benziger personality types, 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.
Behavioral Assessments: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to behavioral assessments, 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.