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.
Causal Factor Charting: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to reconstruct a defensible event sequence, distinguish conditions from actions, test causal claims, and design corrective actions that address the system rather than the nearest person. 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.
Root Cause Analysis: A Systems-Based Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to investigate recurring or consequential problems through evidence, systems thinking, causal testing, corrective action, and verification. 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.
The 5 Whys: Find Root Causes Without Blame
A rigorous, practical guide to use iterative why questions quickly while avoiding linear stories, blame, unsupported depth, and false confidence. 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.
Drill-Down Analysis: Break Problems Into Parts
A rigorous, practical guide to break a broad problem into decision-relevant components without losing interactions, totals, provenance, or system context. 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.
Rewarding your team: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to rewarding teams, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.
Motivating Employees Without Bonuses
A rigorous, practical guide to strengthen purposeful, autonomous, competent, fair, and sustainable performance without treating cash bonuses as the universal lever. 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.
Balance Employee Input and Sustainable Output
A rigorous, practical guide to manage capacity, effort, quality, flow, learning, and sustainable outcomes without reducing people to utilization ratios. 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 Create the Right Pay Structure
A rigorous, practical guide to design an equitable, competitive, affordable, explainable pay architecture with clear job levels, ranges, progression, governance, and legal review. 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.
Develop Emotional Intelligence in Your Team
A rigorous, practical guide to develop observable emotional awareness, interpretation, regulation, empathy, and relationship skills without personality typing or amateur clinical 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 action.
How to Retain Good Team Members for Business
A rigorous, practical guide to retain valuable people through fair work, credible growth, good management, voice, sustainable load, and differentiated action rather than reactive counteroffers. 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.
Data Security in Your Team: A Practical System
A rigorous, practical guide to make security a governed team practice through risk ownership, least privilege, secure defaults, usable training, incident readiness, and continuous learning. 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.
Data and Information Management for Teams
A rigorous, practical guide to govern the information lifecycle so teams can find, understand, trust, use, protect, retain, and dispose of data 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.