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.
Customer Service Frameworks That Improve Resolution
A rigorous, practical guide to design customer service across expectations, access, reliability, responsiveness, empathy, resolution, recovery, learning, and economics. 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.
Designing Scoreboards That Drive Decisions
A rigorous, practical guide to design decision-focused scoreboards linking outcomes, drivers, process health, guardrails, definitions, ownership, thresholds, and 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 to Develop Employees Into Intrapreneurs
A rigorous, practical guide to enable employees to discover, test, sponsor, and scale new value through strategic boundaries, autonomy, evidence, resources, protection, and governance. 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.
What Leadership Really Means for Business
A rigorous guide to leadership as a relational process that creates direction, alignment, and commitment under uncertainty. Learn to distinguish leadership from position, connect influence to shared work, diagnose context, protect voice and accountability, and evaluate whether collective capacity grows rather than merely whether a leader appears decisive.
How Good Are Your Leadership Skills? Assess Skills
A rigorous, practical guide to assess leadership through context-specific behaviour, relationships, decisions, outcomes, ethics, and capability growth rather than a flattering style quiz. 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.
Ulrich’s Leadership Capital Index Explained
A rigorous, practical guide to use leadership capital as a disciplined external confidence lens while distinguishing individual leaders, organizational leadership capability, evidence, and valuation 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.
Core Leadership Theories: A Practical Comparison
A rigorous, practical guide to compare trait, behavioural, contingency, relational, transformational, ethical, shared, and complexity perspectives without searching for one universal theory. 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.
Dunham and Pierce’s Leadership Process Model
A rigorous, practical guide to analyse leadership dynamically through leaders, followers, context, outcomes, and feedback rather than attributing success to one 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 to turn analysis into coordinated action.
Authentic Leadership Without Unfiltered Ego
A rigorous, practical guide to develop self-awareness, values-consistent action, balanced processing, and relational transparency without turning authenticity into unfiltered self-expression. 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.
Lewin’s Three Core Leadership Styles
A rigorous, practical guide to use authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire styles as historical behavioural contrasts while avoiding fixed labels and simplistic superiority 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.
Choose the Right Leadership Approach for the Situation
A rigorous, practical guide to choose leadership behaviour from task, risk, capability, commitment, interdependence, time, power, and stakeholder consequence rather than habit. 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.
What’s Your Leadership Style? Assess Behaviour
A rigorous, practical guide to understand recurring leadership behaviour patterns while preventing a style label from replacing context, impact, flexibility, and ethical judgment. 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.