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.
Building Trust Through Evidence and Repair
A rigorous, practical guide to build calibrated trust through ability, reliability, integrity, care, transparency, fair process, 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.
Eldred’s Power Strategies: Uses and Limits
A rigorous, practical guide to use Eldred’s power-balance and goal-confluence grid cautiously to choose collaboration, influence, negotiation, or protective response. 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 Work Effectively in a Virtual Team
A rigorous, practical guide to coordinate distributed work through shared purpose, explicit norms, asynchronous clarity, synchronous richness, documentation, inclusion, trust, and recovery. 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.
Basic Workplace Numeracy Skills That Matter
A rigorous, practical guide to build practical number sense for quantities, rates, percentages, units, estimates, tables, graphs, uncertainty, and checking in 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.
Developing Ethical Charisma at Work
A rigorous, practical guide to develop ethical charismatic communication through presence, clear values, vivid framing, credible emotion, listening, voice, and consistent conduct without manipulation. 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 Work in a Matrix Organization
A rigorous, practical guide to work effectively across dual authority, shared resources, competing priorities, dependencies, and boundary-spanning relationships with explicit decision rights and escalation. 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.
Working Ethically in a Political Organization
A rigorous, practical guide to navigate organizational politics through stakeholder analysis, legitimate influence, coalition building, transparency, boundaries, and protected escalation without manipulation. 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 to Consider Before Relocating for Work
A rigorous, practical guide to evaluate relocation across role value, career option, total economics, law, family, health, community, housing, risk, reversibility, and 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.
Psychological Capital: Hope, Efficacy and Resilience
A rigorous, practical guide to understand and develop hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism as state-like resources while respecting evidence, context, and structural constraints. 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 Commercial Awareness
A rigorous, practical guide to understand how customers, competitors, channels, operations, regulation, cash, capital, risk, and strategy combine to create or destroy sustainable value. 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 Preserve Your Integrity Under Pressure
A rigorous, practical guide to preserve integrity by aligning values, claims, commitments, conduct, conflicts, evidence, voice, and repair under real pressure. 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.
Professional Networking Through Real Contribution
A rigorous, practical guide to build reciprocal professional relationships through relevant contribution, curiosity, trust, boundaries, and long-term stewardship rather than transactional contact collection. 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.