About Gerry Spencer | CEIBA Transformational Coaching

The Professional

Over two decades of experience — working with individuals, organisations and everything life brings in between.

ICF Qualified Coach NLP Master Practitioner Management & Leadership Business Owner Wellbeing in the Workplace

I have spent over two decades working with people navigating change — individuals finding their way through significant life transitions, and organisations supporting their people through uncertainty and growth. As a coach, I've worked across management and leadership, wellbeing, and business — experience that sits alongside my own path as a business owner, a mother and someone who has also navigated her share of difficult life changes.

Across all of it, one belief has remained constant: people are more capable than they realise, and real growth always begins from the inside out.

I bring both professional experience and genuine personal insight to every coaching relationship. What drives me is simple — helping people reconnect with who they are, find their direction, and move forward with real confidence and clarity.

The Tree

I was travelling solo around Costa Rica — the first time I'd done anything like that since my younger years. I'd arrived mentally exhausted, in the middle of a significant period of change in my own life. I was already building a new business but hadn't yet found the heart of it.

One morning I rode my bike down an old road into the forest and came across a huge tree. The roots spread across the ground in every direction, heavy and ancient. The trunk was vast. Looking up, the canopy caught the light, leaves shining right at the top.

I mentioned to a local nearby that it was the most impressive tree I’d ever seen. She told me its name — Ceiba. The tree of life.

Ceiba pentandra — Costa Rica

The Insight

The roots go as deep as the tree grows tall.

Back home, it kept coming to me — that everything visible above the ground reflects what exists beneath it. You can’t separate the two. That felt true about people too. It became the foundation of everything CEIBA is.

The creativity, the movement, the possibility we want to reach for — all of it depends on the foundations we have built inside ourselves.

When change shakes those foundations, everything becomes harder. When we rebuild them, everything becomes possible again.

That is the work CEIBA does.

Outdoors — where it all makes sense

A Personal Note

I feel most at home outdoors — by the sea, walking in nature or exploring somewhere new. Travel, adventure, tennis and time spent laughing with family and friends are the moments that help me recharge and stay connected to what matters.

I've always been drawn to trees — their strength, resilience and quiet presence. When I encountered the Ceiba tree in Costa Rica, it felt as though I had found the metaphor I'd been searching for.

The Ceiba wasn’t a coincidence.It was a recognition.

Rooted in experience.
Focused on what's possible.

Over two decades of experience — working with individuals, organisations and everything life brings in between.

A road in Costa Rica. A moment that stayed.

Let’s create the conditions for your growth.