“…People develop within these intertwined organizational, community, home, and personal settings that are joined formally and informally to create a system or ecology in which they are shaped and, in turn, can influence (Bronfenbrenner, 1951(Bronfenbrenner, , 1979. Institutions, such as schools and colleges, organizations, workplace environments and social agencies can utilize human resource development professionals, who have an ability to either hinder or guide adults toward a meaningful understanding of life within these formal and informal systems or networks (Grant, 2011;Stanton-Salazar, 1997. Using Bronfenbrenner's conceptual framework provides a means for interpreting or making sense of how people interact and develop within socially constructed environments (ecologies), institutions, agencies, the workplace, with peers, or in other formal and informal arrangements.…”