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.
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.
Strengthening creative thinking in your team: Practical MBA
A rigorous practical guide to creative thinking in 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.
8 ways to strengthen your team: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to strengthening a team, 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.
Succession planning: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to succession planning, 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.
How to manage people’s retirement: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to managing retirement at work, 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.
How to be an effective coach: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to effective coaching, 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.
How to get best from people: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to getting the best from people, 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.
Developing mutual understanding and trust: Practical MBA Gui
A rigorous practical guide to mutual understanding and trust, 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.
The GROW model of coaching and mentoring: Practical MBA Guid
A rigorous practical guide to GROW coaching model, 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.
Preventing Manager Dependency Without Abandonment
Manager dependency appears when routine decisions, confidence, information, or permission remain concentrated in one leader. This chapter distinguishes healthy escalation from avoidable dependency and explains decision rights, coaching, capability, context, psychological safety, gradual delegation, controls, measurement, and continuity.