Laura Peña
Laura Peña Zanatta is an organizational consultant, facilitator, experience designer, artist, and theorist-enthusiast exploring the conceptualization of rituals and their significance in contemporary times.
She has worked extensively as a consultant, helping companies gain awareness of their organizational culture, uncover underlying structures, and foster transformation from within. Some of her clients include Google, Nubank, KPMG, and Embraer.
The metacrisis was a major catalyst for her expanding her work to investigate how rituals can serve as bridges between systemic crises and regenerative futures.
She sees ritual, art, and performance as powerful mediums for constructing new affective landscapes and expanding relational possibilities. Her work is also deeply informed by her background in dance — over ten years of experience — and her studies in performance art with La Fura dels Baus in 2023.
Currently, she is an innovation professor at Fundação Dom Cabral. Alongside her corporate consultancy projects, she is also working with the J Randle Museum in Nigeria, a project dedicated to co-creating contemporary breathing spaces and pathways inspired by the richness and vitality of Yoruba culture.
Events with Laura Peña
Dancing at the Crossroads: What Do We Do in Times of Crisis?March 12 - 14, 2027
The School of Cracks presents, “Dancing at the Crossroads: What Do We Do in Times of Crisis?” What if the crisis is not simply what stands in the way of our future, but what unsettles the very bodies, questions, and possibilities with which we imagine a future? We live in times of extraordinary turbulence. Ecological upheavals, political violence, institutional exhaustion, and the unraveling of familiar certainties have made one question almost impossible to avoid: What do we do? The question feels urgent. We want directions, solutions, strategies, and pathways forward. We want to know how to respond, how to heal,…