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.
Leading in a Downturn: Decisions and Recovery
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Developing a Good Plan B: Practical Guide
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Planning for a Crisis: Readiness, Response, and Learning
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Transformational Leadership Without the Cult of Charisma
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Seven Transformations of Leadership: Practice Guide
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Field Guide
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Developing Self-Awareness Through Evidence and Reflection
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Developing Executive Presence: Evidence and Ethics
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
The Agile Leader: Learning Loops Beyond Ceremony
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Optimism: The Hidden Leadership Resource—and Its Limits
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
The Talisman of Leadership: Character as Repeated Conduct
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.
Ten Leadership and Management Mistakes
A rigorous leadership lesson covering theory, mechanisms, limits, workplace application, evidence, ethics, measurement, failure modes, and a 90-day practice for creating durable capability, responsible systems, and stakeholder value instead of performing a fashionable leadership label.