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.
10 Ways to Make a Bad Day Better: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to making a bad day better, 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.
What Are the HALT Risk States?: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to HALT risk states, 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.
The JD-R Model: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to the Job Demands–Resources model, 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.
Performance Planning: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to performance planning, 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.
The Inverted-U Theory (Yerkes-Dodson Law)
An evidence-aware workplace guide to the inverted-U theory and Yerkes-Dodson law, 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.
Personal Financial Stress and Well-Being
A rigorous guide to understanding financial stress and well-being without shame. Learn to stabilize essential obligations, improve visibility and control, build shock capacity, choose proportionate actions, protect privacy, and seek regulated financial, legal, debt, or mental-health support when needs exceed personal competence.
Mindfulness at Work Without Wellness Washing
A rigorous, practical guide to use present-moment attention and non-reactive awareness as a bounded skill while addressing workload, power, safety, privacy, and organizational causes of distress. 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.
How Self-Confident Are You? Assess Calibration
A rigorous, practical guide to assess confidence as domain-specific expectations and calibrated willingness to act, learn, and recover—not global worth or loudness. 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.
Coping With Change: Evidence-Aware Guide
An evidence-aware workplace guide to coping with change, 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.
Albrecht’s Four Types of Stress: Critical Guide
This evidence-based lesson explains Albrecht’s four types of stress, the work and personal conditions that shape it, practical system changes, measurement, privacy and safety boundaries, and when self-management or peer support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.
The ABC Technique: Events, Beliefs, Consequences
This evidence-based lesson explains ABC technique, the mechanisms and real-world conditions that shape it, practical action, measurement, privacy and safety limits, and when self-directed reflection or workplace support should give way to qualified professional or emergency help.