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 ADDIE Model: Iterative Instructional Design
A rigorous, practical guide to use analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation as an iterative instructional system rather than a rigid waterfall. 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.
Learning Curves: Model Improvement Responsibly
A rigorous, practical guide to model how time, cost, error, or output changes with cumulative experience while avoiding automatic extrapolation, survivor bias, and false assumptions of permanent improvement. 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.
Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Explained
A rigorous, practical guide to use Gagné’s nine instructional events as a flexible sequence for attention, objectives, recall, presentation, guidance, practice, feedback, assessment, and transfer. 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.
The 5E Learning Cycle: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to design inquiry-based learning through engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate while preserving guidance, evidence, and assessment. 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.
4MAT Instruction: Useful Cycle, Scientific Limits
A rigorous, practical guide to use 4MAT cautiously as a lesson-variety framework while rejecting unsupported claims that learners must be matched to fixed learning styles. 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 Create a Trusted Team Wiki for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to build a governed, searchable, maintainable team wiki with purpose, information architecture, ownership, permissions, versioning, review, and archival. 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.
Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Training Evaluation
A rigorous, practical guide to evaluate reaction, learning, behaviour, and results without assuming the four levels form a causal proof or that training alone caused business outcomes. 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.
How to Encourage Learning in the Workplace
A rigorous, practical guide to encourage learning through psychologically safe work, challenging assignments, reflection, feedback, knowledge sharing, mobility, manager support, and protected opportunity. 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.
Training the Trainer: Build Real Capability
A rigorous, practical guide to develop trainers who can analyse needs, design aligned learning, facilitate inclusively, demonstrate, coach practice, assess fairly, support transfer, and improve from evidence. 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.
How to Engage People in Learning for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to create learning engagement through relevance, autonomy, optimal challenge, retrieval, participation, feedback, belonging, and workplace transfer. 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.
Herrmann’s Whole Brain Model: Evidence-Based Guide
An evidence-led professional guide to Herrmann Whole Brain Model, with a distinct learning model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, accessibility safeguards, and exercises that connect instruction to delayed workplace transfer.
VAK Learning Styles: Evidence-Based Guide
An evidence-led professional guide to VAK learning styles, with a distinct learning model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, accessibility safeguards, and exercises that connect instruction to delayed workplace transfer.