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.
Stress Explained: How to Manage It Safely
This evidence-based lesson explains stress management, 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.
Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale: Critical Guide
This evidence-based lesson explains Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, 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.
Supporting a Stressed Friend or Co-Worker
This evidence-based lesson explains supporting someone under 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.
Finding the Causes of Short-Term Stress
This evidence-based lesson explains short-term stress causes, 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.
Staying Focused When Working From Home: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to staying focused when working from home. Learn through a distinct operating model, realistic business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical boundaries, and field exercises that connect personal attention with sustainable team performance.
How Good Is Your Goal-Setting System?
A rigorous, practical guide to assess whether goals are meaningful, clear, challenging, supported, measurable, coordinated, and adaptable—not merely written in the right format. 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.
Eight Common Goal-Setting Mistakes to Fix
A rigorous, practical guide to diagnose eight recurring failures involving borrowed goals, vague outcomes, metric fixation, overload, missing strategy, weak feedback, goal conflict, and rigid persistence. 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.
Locke’s Goal-Setting Theory: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to apply goal specificity, difficulty, commitment, feedback, task complexity, and strategy development without turning challenging goals into rigid quotas. 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.
SMART Goals: Uses, Limits and Better Practice
A rigorous, practical guide to use specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound language as a drafting check while adding strategy, learning, capacity, ethics, and adaptation. 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.
Golden Rules for Effective Goal Setting
A rigorous, practical guide to apply durable rules for meaningful, challenging, supported, focused, feedback-rich, ethical, and revisable goals. 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.
Backward Goal Setting: Plan From Outcome to Action
A rigorous, practical guide to plan backward from a defined end state to prerequisites, milestones, decision gates, dependencies, and the next executable action. 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.
Visualization for Goals: Process, Not Magic
A rigorous, practical guide to use process imagery and mental rehearsal to support planning, skill, and action while avoiding passive outcome fantasy and magical claims. 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.