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.
New-Idea Strategies and Techniques That Work
A rigorous, practical guide to build an idea portfolio through problem discovery, knowledge recombination, constraints, analogy, incubation, independent generation, selection, and experimentation. 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.
Metaphorical Thinking for Better Ideas
A rigorous, practical guide to use metaphors and analogies to transfer relational insight from a source domain while testing mismatches, hidden assumptions, and practical consequences. 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 Reframing Matrix: See Problems Differently
A rigorous, practical guide to examine a problem from multiple stakeholder, functional, temporal, evidential, and systemic perspectives before committing to one definition. 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.
Kano Model Analysis: A Complete Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to classify how product attributes relate nonlinearly to satisfaction while recognizing survey design, context, customer heterogeneity, and category change. 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.
Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation Explained
A rigorous, practical guide to use the ten-types framework to explore innovation across configuration, offering, and experience while testing combinations, feasibility, defensibility, and stakeholder value. 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.
Virtual Learning: Evidence-Based Guide
An evidence-led professional guide to virtual learning, 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.
Surviving Long Work Hours: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to surviving long work hours, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.
Minimizing Workspace Stress: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to minimizing workspace stress, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.
Creating a Comfortable Work Environment
An evidence-aware workplace guide to creating a comfortable work environment, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.
Working in an Emotionally Demanding Role
An evidence-aware workplace guide to working in an emotionally demanding role, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.
17 Ways to Enjoy Your Commute!: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to enjoying your commute, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.
How to Handle a Stressful Job: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to handling a stressful job, with a distinct support model, hypothetical case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and explicit guidance on when managers should involve qualified or emergency support.