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.
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.
Business Process Improvement: A Practical Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to improve end-to-end flow and customer value by studying demand, work, variation, constraints, handoffs, errors, and the behaviour of the whole system. 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.
Discover What Drives Your Team: An Evidence Guide
Teams are not motivated by one universal lever, and individuals’ priorities change with task and life context. This chapter provides a rigorous method for discovering motivation drivers through safe dialogue, observation, work design, progress evidence, patterns, experiments, fairness, and continuous review.
Understanding People’s Motivations at Work
Work motivation is not one trait or lever. This chapter integrates goal direction, expectancy, self-determination, fairness, identity, affect, habits, job design, social context, and strain—showing managers how to form competing explanations, choose evidence, design work, and avoid manipulative simplification.
Build a Happier, More Satisfied Team Responsibly
Team happiness and satisfaction emerge from work quality, fairness, relationships, meaning, autonomy, competence, psychological safety, manageable demands, and recovery. This chapter distinguishes mood, satisfaction, engagement, and wellbeing and provides an evidence-based system for diagnosis, redesign, measurement, and ethical leadership.
Help Your Team Feel Good Without Forced Positivity
Managers can support positive team affect without demanding cheerfulness or acting as therapists. This chapter explains emotional validation, affective climate, connection, appreciation, recovery, psychological safety, emotion regulation, meeting design, boundaries, distress escalation, and the system changes that make better days credible.
Improving commitment and engagement: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to commitment and engagement, 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.
Six ways to build communication skills: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to communication skills, 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.