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.
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.
Fiedler’s Contingency Model: Uses and Limits
A rigorous, practical guide to understand how leader orientation and situational favourableness may interact while treating LPC measurement and fit claims cautiously. 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.
Leadership excellence: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to leadership excellence, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
High performance culture: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to high-performance culture, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Succession planning: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to succession planning, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Kirkpatrick model for L&D: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to Kirkpatrick model for learning and development, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Tools for onboarding process: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to onboarding process tools, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Science of feedback forms: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to science of feedback forms, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
ESOP as a retention tool: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to ESOP as a retention tool, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Job description of PA: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to personal assistant job description, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
Job description of EA: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to executive assistant job description, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.
How to setup CEO’s office?: A Practical Guide
A thesis-grade guide to setting up a CEO office, with an original operating model, hypothetical business case, measurement architecture, 90-day action plan, practitioner checklist, governance safeguards, and field exercises that translate concepts into accountable workplace decisions.