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.
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.
Well-Formed Outcomes: Uses and Scientific Limits
A rigorous, practical guide to use well-formed-outcome questions cautiously to clarify agency, sensory evidence, context, consequences, resources, and next action without treating NLP claims as settled science. 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.
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.
How to Develop Long-Term Focus Responsibly
A rigorous, practical guide to sustain direction across changing conditions through values, goal hierarchy, protected attention, milestones, option management, feedback, and strategic revision. 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.
How to Get More Done in Less Time: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to getting more done in less time. 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.
Pickle Jar Theory: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to pickle jar theory. 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.
Is This a “Morning” Task?: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to matching tasks to time of day. 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.
Organizing Disorganized People: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to organizing disorganized people. 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.
Minimizing Distractions: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to minimizing distractions. 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.