In 2011, Laurie Lane-Zucker gave a name to something emerging across sectors and geographies: the impact entrepreneur. Not a social entrepreneur adding a charitable component to business. Not a sustainability consultant helping corporations greenwash. Someone building enterprises where financial return and systemic regeneration are inseparable — where success requires healing rather than merely tolerating harm.
Fifteen years later, that argument has become a breakthrough — a critical mass of practitioners, tools, and proof points that can no longer be dismissed as marginal or utopian. This field manual draws on decades of leadership to offer the frameworks, vision, and practical tools needed to transform our economy from single-bottom-line thinking to a regenerative model that serves people, planet, and prosperity alike.
In July 2018, Laurie Lane-Zucker gathered forty systems-change leaders from three continents at Race Brook Lodge. That gathering opens the second part of The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy, Lane-Zucker’s new book, published by Berrett-Koehler in September. Laurie, who has lived in these hills for three decades, reads by candlelight from the field manual this valley helped write.
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
Reading at 7:30pm, by candlelight.
In the Barn at Race Brook Lodge
864 South Undermountain road ( AKA Rt 41 ) Sheffield, MAFree. No cover charge (attendees do not need to pay the Tag Sale cover fee)
Signed copies of The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough will be available
Make a day of it: the Race Brook Lodge Tag Sale runs Saturday 10am–6pm in the Event Barn and Stagecoach Tavern, before the reading | TAG SALE INFO
Stay the night: Race Brook guest rooms are open through November 8 | REQUEST A ROOM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laurie Lane-Zucker
Laurie Lane-Zucker coined the term “impact entrepreneur” in 2011 and is founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, PBC, a global media and community platform for the impact and regenerative economy with more than 70,000 members in over 200 countries. Earlier he was the founding executive director of The Orion Society, publisher of Orion magazine, based in Great Barrington, and in the 1990s he joined John Elder in co-developing and coining the term “place-based education.” He lives in Sheffield.
The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy (Berrett-Koehler, 2026) · impactentrepreneur.com/breakthrough
