Gabi Lowe
Strengthen your authentic resilience with Gabi Lowe, speaker, life and leadership coach, and well-known medical advocate. Gabi equips professionals to navigate change, adversity and uncertainty through practical courage frameworks, drawing from her award-winning organ-donor advocacy work and her bestselling memoir Get Me To 21, adapted into a documentary.
Cape Town, South Africa
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Gabi is the founder of The Coaching Nest and The Resilience Factory, where she has supported individuals, leaders, and teams to develop resilience, clarity, and meaningful personal agency. Earlier in her career, she held senior communications and marketing roles at Fairlady Magazine and Woolworths South Africa, before establishing her own business, Upfront Marketing.
Her public advocacy work emerged through her family’s journey supporting her daughter Jenna, whose battle with a rare disease sparked a national movement around organ donation awareness in South Africa. Gabi cofounded The Jenna Lowe Trust, helping to increase organ donor registrations in South Africa by 287%. Her bestselling memoir, Get Me to 21, became an award-winning documentary on M-Net and Showmax in 2024.
As an ICF-accredited professional life and leadership coach, Gabi brings both lived experience and structured coaching practice to her work. Through keynote talks, leadership conversations, and facilitated sessions, she explores courage as a series of conscious choices rather than a personality trait. Her storytelling style allows audiences to engage deeply with complex topics such as grief, uncertainty, connection, and purpose.
Organisations invite Gabi to help leaders and teams rethink resilience as a skill that can be practised and developed. Her work offers a grounded perspective on navigating uncertainty, building meaningful connection, and making values-led decisions in the face of challenge.
Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of how courage can be practised in everyday moments, how resilience grows through connection and awareness, and how adversity can deepen both leadership and humanity.
Book Gabi to give your audience grounded, human insights that shift how they approach challenge and lead through change.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Gabi Lowe reframes courage not as fearlessness, but as a series of deliberate choices made in moments of uncertainty. Drawing on personal experience, leadership insights, and powerful storytelling, she explores how individuals respond when faced with loss, change, or difficult decisions. The session examines how values, presence, and conscious choice shape resilience, offering a thoughtful perspective on how people can act with clarity and integrity when the path forward feels uncertain.
Gabi Lowe challenges the idea that resilience is an innate personality trait, presenting it instead as a skill that can be developed over time. Through lived experience, coaching practice, and practical insight, she explores how awareness, relationships, and agency help individuals respond to challenge. The conversation highlights the small but meaningful practices that strengthen resilience, showing how people can build steadiness and adaptability even during periods of disruption or change.
Gabi Lowe explores how people continue to live meaningfully in the presence of grief, uncertainty, and profound change. Drawing on deeply personal experience and years of coaching work, she reflects on how connection, purpose, and humanity remain possible even during the most difficult chapters of life. The session offers a thoughtful exploration of how individuals and organisations can acknowledge loss while still creating space for growth, compassion, and renewed perspective.
Gabi Lowe examines advocacy as an active and conscious practice rooted in connection, courage, and purpose. Drawing on her experience co-founding The Jenna Lowe Trust, she explores how individuals can create impact even when faced with uncertainty and limited control. The session reflects on how creative thinking, community, and determination allow people to turn personal challenge into meaningful change, offering a powerful perspective on leadership through advocacy.
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