
Episode #50
Impact Entrepreneurs, Regeneration, and the Prevention Dividend with Laurie Lane-Zucker
Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, joins Kim Allchurch Flick. Laurie Lane-Zucker, who coined “impact entrepreneur” and whose upcoming book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy (Sept. 1, 2026), argues for transforming an extractive economy into a regenerative one. Lane-Zucker traces his systems-thinking roots to environmental writers and his work on place-based education, linking cultural foundations, economic architecture (including B Corps), and systemic infrastructure as three nested layers needed for change. He frames today’s “polycrisis” as a single systems failure and introduces “real security” and the “prevention dividend,” citing returns from preventive investments like ecosystem restoration, hazard mitigation, and pandemic preparedness. The conversation also covers language shifts from sustainability to regeneration, mission protection through ownership models, the impact of the attention economy on community and place, and resources available at impactentrepreneur.com/breakthrough .






