“…Today, the typical demands of adulthood are now coupled with a new norm of ever‐growing complexity, instability, and ambiguity. These realities have become taken for granted and much discussed assumptions in the fields of adult learning and organizational studies where practitioners and scholars have focused their attention on helping adults and organizations navigate this new landscape (Dzubinski, Hentz, Davis, & Nicolaides, ; Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, ). A paradox of our contemporary organizations and society is that we are accumulating new knowledge at an ever‐increasing rate, while at the same time we are confronted with potential disasters stemming from the unanticipated, nonlinear consequences of this accumulating body of knowledge.…”