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.
The Action Priority Matrix: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to compare impact and effort to identify quick wins, major projects, fill-ins, and low-value work while correcting for risk, dependency, evidence, and capacity. 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.
Managing Conflicting Priorities: A Practical Guide
A rigorous guide to managing conflicting priorities. 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.
Program Management: Govern Benefits and Interdependence
Program management coordinates related projects and operational change to realize strategic benefits. This chapter explains program purpose, benefits maps, component architecture, governance, interdependencies, tranches, stakeholder transitions, risk, capability, metrics, closure, and why consolidating project status is not enough.
The Iron Triangle of Project Management—Beyond It
The project-management iron triangle frames trade-offs among scope, time, and cost, often with quality at the center. This chapter explains its value and limits, baseline control, uncertainty, change decisions, product and stakeholder outcomes, benefits, team sustainability, metrics, and a richer model of project success.
The Planning Cycle: From Purpose to Adaptive Action
The planning cycle links context analysis, outcome setting, option choice, detailed coordination, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and revision. This chapter explains planning horizons, assumptions, participation, scenarios, forecast ranges, decision gates, learning, ethics, metrics, and how to prevent a plan from becoming obsolete theater.
Project Management Phases and Processes
A rigorous guide to design a project lifecycle whose gates, processes, evidence, and learning cadence fit the work. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
How to Write a Design Brief: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to write a design brief that aligns strategy, users, constraints, exploration, and acceptance. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
Benefits Management: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to turn promised value into owned, measured, and ethically distributed operational outcomes. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
Managing Project Uncertainty: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to choose proportionate responses for variability, ambiguity, complexity, novelty, and unknowns. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
Managing Project Finances: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to control project affordability and value through transparent baselines, forecasts, commitments, and change. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
Business Testing in Projects: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to design business tests that reveal whether a change works for users, operations, controls, and intended value. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.
Project Close Activities: Practical Project Guide
A rigorous guide to close a project without abandoning obligations, knowledge, benefits, records, or residual risks. Learn the core concepts through a distinct operating model, worked business case, measurement system, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, ethical limits, and field exercises designed for managers.