Trevor Dickinson shares on succession planning and conflict resolution.

About: Trevor currently holds the position as Executive Chairman of Dickinson Group of Companies, a leading Asset Integrity Management and Industrial Solutions.

The company is customer centric, focusing on helping our industrial customers optimising their maintenance costs and improving plant performance. We strive to achieve this by providing innovative solutions to enhance the service life of their operating assets. The sectors in which we operate includes a wide range of industries including mining, metals smelting, mineral processing, construction, water treatment, chemical, food & beverage and other large industrial companies.

Trevor is also the co-founder and CEO of Family Legacies Group, focusing on helping family businesses resolve the critical issues of keeping the family and the business successful, to leave a legacy for future generations. Family Legacies Group's family business consulting offering is enhanced by the Dickinson family's institutional memory and know-how of leading a family-owned business, which has been passed on over four generations and 110-years of successful business.

Family Legacies Consulting focuses on family business consulting helping family businesses, while Family Legacies Wealth focuses on providing a comprehensive multidisciplinary family office range of services.

Dickinson Group of Companies www.dgrpint.com

Family Legacies Group www.familylegacies.co.za

Thomasina Williams shares on importance of legacy in a family business. Focusing on how heritage can strengthen the business and the family.

About: Thomasina H. Williams serves as a Strategic Thought Partner, Consultant and Coach to Enterprising Families.  She works with clients to advance generational success as their family legacy, by being as intentional in developing their family’s human capital as they are in growing their financial capital.

Through their work with her, clients develop the capacity to have sensitive conversations, make difficult decisions, and be purposeful stewards, while navigating the complexities that come with combining family and finances.

Thomasina was the first in-house consultant hired by one of the nation’s largest private banks to play a leadership role in developing its offering to help ultra-high net worth clients navigate issues of family dynamics. She has also served as a family business consultant with a leading consulting firm, published articles, presented to international audiences and conducted trainings addressing issues of legacy family planning.

She worked for more than 20 years as a lawyer, during which time she became a partner in one of Florida’s leading full-service law firms in three years, and then co-founded the first Black-owned law firm in Miami with a primarily corporate clientele. Thomasina was recognized as one of the Top 250 Lawyers in South Florida, and the Miami-Dade County Commission named a day in her honor to acknowledge her pro bono public interest legal work.

Thereafter, Thomasina relocated to New York, where she served for six years as a program officer at the nation’s second largest private philanthropic foundation, and invested more than $42 million in grants to strengthen non-profits and the non-profit sector.

Thomasina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She holds certificates in Advanced Family Business Advising and Family Wealth Advising from the Family Firm Institute. She is also a member of the Purposeful Planning Institute, the Galliard Family Business Advisor Institute, the Independent Trustee Alliance and The Florida Bar. Additionally, Thomasina serves on the Advisory Board of Enterprising Women magazine.