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.
The DiSC Model: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to DiSC 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.
The Hogan Development Survey: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to Hogan Development Survey, 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.
The Big Five Personality Traits: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to Big Five personality traits, 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.
Intrapreneurship: Practical Evidence Guide
A rigorous workplace guide to intrapreneurship, 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.
Knowledge Management Beyond Repositories
A rigorous, practical guide to govern how critical knowledge is created, validated, shared, applied, protected, retained, and retired across people, processes, and technology. 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 Run Successful Lunch-and-Learn Events
A rigorous, practical guide to run voluntary, accessible, focused learning sessions that respect breaks, connect to real work, enable participation, and lead to follow-up practice. 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.
How to Develop a Competency Framework
A rigorous, practical guide to build a work-derived framework with clear competencies, proficiency levels, behavioural evidence, governance, fairness, and links to development rather than vague personality labels. 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.
Speed Reading: Evidence, Limits and Better Practice
A rigorous guide to reading more efficiently without impossible speed claims. Learn to match pace to purpose and text difficulty, preview structure, skim selectively, protect attention, strengthen knowledge, verify comprehension and retention, and slow down whenever technical, legal, or strategic meaning demands it.
Reading Strategies for Durable Understanding
This evidence-based lesson explains reading strategies, how its retrieval cues work, where it helps, where it fails, a worked business example, deliberate practice, measurement, accessibility, ethical boundaries, and the verification required before relying on memory in consequential situations.
The Alphabet Technique: A Memory Peg System
This evidence-based lesson explains alphabet mnemonic technique, how its retrieval cues work, where it helps, where it fails, a worked business example, deliberate practice, measurement, accessibility, ethical boundaries, and the verification required before relying on memory in consequential situations.
The Journey Technique for Ordered Recall
This evidence-based lesson explains journey mnemonic technique, how its retrieval cues work, where it helps, where it fails, a worked business example, deliberate practice, measurement, accessibility, ethical boundaries, and the verification required before relying on memory in consequential situations.