Courage is not
fearlessness…
It’s the choice to stay present
when life changes everything.
Gabi Lowe speaks on courage, resilience, and what it means to live fully through change, challenge, uncertainty and loss.
About Gabi
Gabi Lowe is a South African-born keynote speaker whose work sits at the intersection of courage, resilience, and deeply lived
human experience – blending professional insight with personal truth to help people navigate
life’s hardest moments with clarity, perspective, compassion and agency.
Her talks are thoughtful, human, and deeply engaging. Gabi equips audiences with perspective and practical ways to remain present,
connected, and build authentic resilience when life does not go to plan.
speaking themes
Courage
as a Choice
Moving beyond fearlessness toward presence, agency, values-led action and choice.
Resilience
Can Be Learned
Resilience as a practice; a learnt capacity versus a personality trait; that can be built through awareness, relationship, practice and agency.
Living Fully Through
Loss and Change
How meaning, connection, and humanity can endure even in the face of unspeakable loss, pain and uncertainty.
Advocacy and
Creative Choice
Advocacy as an active practise. Using conscious choice and connection to prevail when certainty and control fall away.
TEDx SOMERSET WEST 2025
Unlocking the Courage
Within
In this talk, Gabi explores courage, not as bravery or strength, but as a series of quiet, human choices made in moments of uncertainty, loss, and transition.
Beyond the diagnosis
Episode 5: Courage, loss and conscious leadership with Gabi Lowe. Living with cancer.
Beyond the diagnosis
Episode 5: Courage, loss and conscious leadership with Gabi Lowe. Living with cancer.
WHY GABI
Gabi is known for her ability to hold depth without heaviness, and honesty without despair.
Drawing on deeply lived experience and decades of professional leadership, coaching, and advocacy.
She speaks with warmth, credibility, and quiet authority.
A storyteller at heart, audiences consistently describe her talks as grounding, deeply human, and unexpectedly practical. Gabi leaves people moved, steadier and hopeful about how they want to live and lead.
Thank you for your simply incredible key-note speech at the Reach For A Dream gala dinner – it was moving, relevant and deeply powerful from beginning to end, with total relevance to the evening. Without a doubt one of the best talks I’ve ever heard. You set the tone for the rest of the evening, which was an incredible success, thank you!
I have attended countless conferences globally, and never seen an audience so captivated by a speaker. Simply one of the most moving and impactful speakers I have ever heard.
I was privileged to host Gabi Lowe as a TEDx speaker, and she had the audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish. Her delivery is powerful, authentic, and deeply engaging, leaving a lasting impression long after the talk ends. Gabi’s message on resilience is one that truly deserves to be heard. I wholeheartedly recommend her for audiences of all kinds.
“There are less than a handful of people who have truly had a directional impact on my life and work over the past 10 years – Gabi is one of them. Honest, wise and deeply ethical – Gabi holds you accountable to your words and true to who you are.”
“Gabi Lowe tells a powerful story of her personal response to the most deeply challenging life events. I witnessed a room full of medical specialists profoundly moved by her account, advocacy and experiences, and I believe everyone present recalibrated their humanity and perspectives.”
“Gabi Lowe is a communicator of great integrity, humanity, resonance and wisdom. She has an exceptional gift that allows her to reach out to diverse audiences with grace, leaving them equipped both with practical inspiration, as well as the belief that they, too, can survive life’s wrecking balls, just as she has. I count myself lucky to have heard her speak many times and am always happy to sign up for more! “
AUDIENCES & FORMATS
Gabi Speaks To:
Corporate & Leadership
Conferences and global events
Medical, health, and advocacy sectors
NGOs and purpose-driven organisations
Retreats and facilitated conversations
FORMATS:
Leadership offsites and retreats
Keynote address audiences
Conference sessions
Panel discussions
Q&A led sessions
The Work That Informs The Stage
Gabi’s speaking is informed by her broader work across
professional coaching, resilience training, workshops, and social impact:
The Coaching Nest
leadership
and life coaching
The Resilience Factory
resilience education, training and organisational learning
The Jenna Lowe Trust
advocacy, legacy,
and systemic change
The Story Behind the Speaker
GET ME TO 21
The best-selling book
Brilliantly written and narrated, riveting in all its terrible truth and pain, in this brutally honest memoir Gabi Lowe shares her family’s desperate fight to save Jenna’s life. Get Me to 21 will inspire us to believe that the capacity to face even the darkest, and most unimaginable, lives deep within us all.
GET ME TO 21
The Jenna Lowe Story
The award-winning documentary
This moving 90-minute Documentary is available throughout Africa on SHOWMAX
- Winner Best Feature Documentary at the IMDb Cannes Arts Film Festival 7th edition for 2024
- Winner Best Feature Film at the IMDb Toronto Documentary and Feature Short Film Festival 2024
- Outstanding Excellence Award at the IMDb Women’s International Film Festival 2024
- Outstanding Excellence Award at the IMDb Documentaries Without Borders Human Spirit Category 2024
- Outstanding Excellence Award at the IMDb Documentaries Without Borders Health Category 2024