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.
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.
How Good Are Your Motivation Skills? A Diagnostic
Motivation skill is not charisma or the ability to deliver an energizing speech. This chapter provides a rigorous self-assessment across diagnosis, listening, work design, goal clarity, feedback, autonomy, fairness, recognition, workload, experimentation, and ethical use of managerial power.
Management Misconceptions That Damage Teams
A rigorous, practical guide to replace seductive myths about authority, motivation, fairness, control, and managerial heroics with an evidence-led operating model for coordinated performance. 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 Build Trust Inside Your Team
A rigorous, practical guide to build trust through repeated evidence of reliability, competence, integrity, care, fair process, candour, and credible repair. 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.
Managing Team Emotions Without Suppressing Them
A rigorous, practical guide to respond to emotion as legitimate information while preserving dignity, boundaries, psychological safety, work standards, and routes to qualified support. 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 Find the Best People for Your Team
A rigorous, practical guide to define evidence-based role fit, build an accessible candidate pool, use valid selection methods, and choose for present contribution plus learnable future capability. 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.
How to Write a Clear, Inclusive Job Description
A rigorous, practical guide to write a clear, inclusive, outcome-centred job description that improves self-selection, assessment, onboarding, accountability, and job design. 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.
Competency-Based Interviews: A Complete Guide
A rigorous, practical guide to turn job analysis into structured behavioural questions, disciplined probes, anchored scoring, fair administration, and defensible hiring 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 coordinated action.
Ten Recruiting Mistakes and How to Fix Them
A rigorous, practical guide to diagnose ten recurring recruiting failures across role design, sourcing, screening, assessment, decision-making, candidate care, and validation. 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.
Maximize Engagement and Transfer in Team Learning
A rigorous, practical guide to design team learning around relevance, retrieval, deliberate practice, feedback, social safety, manager support, and transfer to real work. 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.
Build a Hands-On Training Program That Transfers
A rigorous, practical guide to build a safe, authentic practice system from task analysis through demonstration, deliberate repetition, feedback, assessment, transfer, and continuous improvement. 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.
Managing 4 Ps of delegates: Practical MBA Guide
A rigorous practical guide to managing four Ps of delegates, 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.