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.
Interrelationship Diagrams for Complex Problems
A rigorous, practical guide to map complex reciprocal influences, identify leverage and dependency, and design experiments without confusing arrow density with causal truth. 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.
Understand the Complete Decision Cycle
A rigorous, practical guide to understand decision making as a repeatable cycle of framing, evidence, alternatives, choice, execution, feedback, and 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 Make Better Business Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to make defensible choices by framing the problem, clarifying objectives, generating alternatives, evaluating uncertainty and trade-offs, and committing to 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.
How Good Is Your Decision-Making Process?
A rigorous, practical guide to audit decision quality through process evidence, calibration, fairness, implementation, and learning instead of celebrating lucky outcomes. 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.
Vroom–Yetton Decision Model: Choose Participation
A rigorous, practical guide to choose an appropriate degree of leader and team participation by diagnosing decision quality, information, commitment, conflict, time, and process constraints. 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.
TDODAR Decision Model for Time-Critical Choices
A rigorous, practical guide to use a memorable time-critical cycle to assess time, diagnose conditions, generate options, decide, assign, and review without mistaking speed for haste. 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.
Recognition-Primed Decisions: How Experts Decide
A rigorous, practical guide to understand how experienced practitioners recognize situations, mentally simulate one workable action, and act under time pressure while managing expertise limits. 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.
Prospect Theory: A Practical Business Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to understand reference dependence, loss aversion, diminishing sensitivity, and probability weighting so choices can be designed and audited more responsibly. 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.
Decision Matrix Analysis: A Rigorous Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to compare alternatives across explicit criteria and weights while exposing scale design, trade-offs, uncertainty, thresholds, and sensitivity. 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.
Paired Comparison Analysis: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to prioritize options through structured pairwise judgments while managing inconsistency, scale limits, context effects, and the difference between preference and value. 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.
Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Complete Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to structure complex multi-criteria decisions into hierarchies, elicit pairwise judgments, calculate priorities, test consistency, and examine sensitivity. 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.
Conjoint Analysis: Design and Interpret Trade-Offs
A rigorous, practical guide to estimate how people trade product or service attributes by designing realistic choice tasks, modelling preferences, and translating results cautiously into decisions. 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.