The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced its newest resource for ISA members: a 10-week, fully virtual program with content based on an MBA curriculum. The ISA Business Academy is designed to empower current and future leaders of the automation industry to master organizational leadership, people management, and business finance. The ISA Business Academy program includes more than 20 hours of video, a private learning community, and a resources library. After joining the ISA Business Academy, students receive access for a year to:
- 6+ hours of live facilitated expert coaching
- More than 350 learning modules within the self-paced online learning
- Connection to a cohort of fellow business leaders
- Downloadable companion worksheets and materials
- 20 interactive tools for implementing what the course teaches
- “Knowledge checks” to build competency
- Access to video modules and other resources for a full year.
ISA is known for its world-class training and quality instructors. ISA Business Academy instructors include automation business expert Eddie Habibi and automation finance expert Scott Reynolds, PE, CISSP. ISA Executive Board Member Eddie Habibi founded and lead PAS, an industrial automation software company, through 2020. He is the co-author of two popular best-practices books about industrial operator effectiveness: The Alarm Management Handbook and The High-Performance HMI Handbook . Prior to establishing PAS, Habibi held various positions at Schlumberger and Honeywell International.
He holds an Engineering degree from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas. 
Former ISA Treasurer Scott Reynolds is an experienced IT/OT manager with a demonstrated history of working in both municipal and manufacturing environments with a focus on industrial cybersecurity. Scott is passionate about IT/OT collaboration, workforce development, strategic planning, and development of reasonable and useful corporate standards for process control networks. He currently serves as senior security and networking engineering manager at Johns Manville in Denver.
ISA created the ISA Business Academy with the help of John Cioffi, who has spent 30 years coaching hundreds of clients to success through GoalMakers’ “master manager” programs. Cioffi previously ran a subsidiary of Amoco Oil and held executive positions at several other companies. He received his MBA from The Wharton School and holds a master’s degree from Dartmouth. The first 20-week ISA Business Academy program begins Aug. 31, 2023.
More information is available online.
