Gabi Lowe
Gabi spent 27 successful years in media and marketing when, following a dramatic change of personal circumstances, she found her true calling as a life and leadership coach in 2016 and launched The Coaching Nest.
Gabi is an author of the best seller “Get Me to 21” and acknowledged worldwide as a medical activist for organ donation and Pulmonary Hypertension in South Africa. Following the tragic loss of her elder daughter, Jenna Lowe, in 2015, Gabi launched The Jenna Lowe Trust as a non-profit organisation in order to continue Jenna’s work and legacy. In 2015 Gabi met Pippa Shaper and together they have co-authored the Ten R’s Model for Authentic Resilience. They launched The Resilience Factory in early 2018.
Pippa Shaper
Pippa’s career started in retail in the UK before settling in South Africa in 1992 and working in the non-profit sector, which lead to her co-founding Home from Home, a child protection organisation and serving on the board of several international NGOs.
Believing that we all have three careers in us, Pippa started her coaching studies in 2015 when she gained international accreditation as a Gallup Strengths Coach and, having continued her studies with the Centre for Coaching at UCT’s Graduate School of Business is now accredited with the International Coaching Federation. In 2015 she met Gabi and together they co-authored the Ten R’s of Authentic Resilience model and launched The Resilience Factory in early 2018
