OD Practitioner, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization Development Network, an international professional association of organization development practitioners, will feature an article by Milano Alumna Roberta Sutton in the Winter 2009 issue.

Sutton, who received a master of science in Organizational Change Management in 2009, is the author of an article titled, “Happiness for the Pragmatic Optimist and Everyone Else,” which will appear in Volume 41, Issue 4 of OD Practitioner. The article is based on research Sutton conducted while at Milano. The resulting capstone paper received the award for Best Paper Organizational Change Management 2008-2009.

In the article, Sutton investigates relationships between employee happi¬ness, improved performance, and increased productivity and proposes how OD Practitioners can use happiness in the workplace to inform organizational development issues and favorably impact the bottom line.

Sutton, a management consultant, says she was very pleased to learn her research would be published in a journal for other organization development practitioners. “I am privileged to contribute to the OD Practitioner’s rigorous conversation and hope to stimulate new thinking. I am also grateful to my Milano professors for giving me opportunities to reveal and examine my core interests.”