The extractive economy is failing. The regenerative economy is being built. This is the definitive field manual for entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers ready to stop tinkering with a broken system--and start building what replaces it.

When Laurie Lane-Zucker coined the term impact entrepreneur in 2011, he named an emerging movement. Fifteen years later, that movement has reached a breakthrough. The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough maps how to join it.

Part manifesto and part operating manual, this book shows how enterprises, ownership, capital, markets, security, and culture must transform together--and provides practical tools to begin immediately. Drawing on three decades at the forefront of impact investing and regenerative economics, Lane-Zucker introduces powerful new frameworks, including the Five Pillars of Real Security, the Prevention Dividend, and Defense as a Service--reimagining protection as shared resilience rather than fortified isolation.

You'll learn to

• design enterprises that heal communities and ecosystems;
• structure ownership so mission survives growth and succession;
• deploy capital for long-term resilience;
• rethink risk through prevention and collaboration; and
• translate regenerative values into concrete strategies and decisions.

Each chapter moves from analysis to action, with real-world applications from practitioners already building the Impact Economy. The breakthrough is happening now. The question is whether you'll participate.