Gabi Lowe is a South African life and leadership coach, author, and advocate whose work explores courage, resilience, and navigating profound adversity. Drawing on deeply personal experience and decades of professional leadership, she helps audiences rethink what it means to live and lead with purpose.
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.
How can I book Gabi Lowe for my next event?
Email gabi.lowe@getapeptalk.com, or call us on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
As speaker agents, PepTalk can secure Gabi Lowe for commercial and corporate events, conference keynotes, leadership talks, celebrity brand endorsements & partnerships, personal appearances, and motivational speaking engagements. We can assist with enquiries about Gabi Lowe's speaking fees, availability, and booking process for private business functions, industry conferences, and team events. Please note, for media interviews, autographs, charity appearances, or personal matters, we recommend contacting Gabi directly.
What topics does Gabi Lowe specialise in?
Gabi Lowe specialises in discussing courage, authentic resilience, navigating change and more.
What is Gabi Lowe's speaking style like?
Gabi delivers powerful, authentic talks that deeply engage audiences. Her intuitive style inspires resilience, balances empathy with insight, and leaves a lasting, meaningful impact on both personal and professional levels.
Does Gabi Lowe offer virtual speaking engagements?
Yes, Gabi Lowe offers virtual speaker bookings for webinars, online conferences, and remote or distributed team engagements.
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