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.
Managing Interruptions: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to managing interruptions. 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.
Dealing With Lateness: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to dealing with lateness. 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.
9 Ways to Use Your Dead Time Wisely: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to using dead time wisely. 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 to Reduce Dead Time in Your Team: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to reducing dead time in a team. 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.
The Art of Concise Conversations: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to concise conversations. 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.
Creating Time in Your Day: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to creating time in your 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.
How Productive Are You? A Rigorous Assessment
A rigorous, practical guide to evaluate productivity by valuable outcomes, quality, resource use, learning, sustainability, and system contribution instead of activity volume. 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 Cost Your Time for Better Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to estimate the economic and opportunity cost of time for pricing, prioritization, delegation, process design, and capacity decisions without claiming every hour has one price. 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.
Multitasking: Costs, Limits and Better Systems
A rigorous, practical guide to manage unavoidable concurrency while reducing costly task switching, divided attention, unfinished work, and error. 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.
Leverage: Multiply Impact Without Hidden Costs
A rigorous, practical guide to increase valuable impact through elimination, standardization, delegation, automation, reusable assets, capability, and systems while managing fragility and transferred burden. 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.