ASSOCIATES
Family Legacies' Associates are leaders in their respective fields including; Financial Planning, Wealth & Risk Management, Auditing & Business Turnarounds, Corporate & Commercial Law as well as Professional Coaching & Facilitation, combined with Family Business Consulting expertise, to provide our clients with a professional and integrated multi-disciplinary service.
DU TOIT VAN DEN BERG
JEANDRE DU TOIT
LOUIS STROEBEL
DEBBIE MARTIN
Financial Planning, Wealth
& Risk Management
Auditing, Company Structuring
& Business Turnarounds
Corporate & Commercial Law
Professional Coach & Facilitator
TREVOR DICKINSON
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, DICKINSON GROUP OF COMPANIES
FOUNDER, FAMILY LEGACIES
HELPING FAMILY BUSINESSES NAVIGATE THE INTERSECTIONS OF FAMILY, OWNERSHIP & PURPOSE
As a fifth-generation leader of a 115-year-old family enterprise, I’ve seen how success can quietly strain the very relationships that built it. Transitions, differing ambitions, and unspoken conflict can weaken both the family and the business if left unresolved.
That’s why I founded Family Legacies — to help business families preserve not only their enterprises, but the trust, values, and sense of purpose that make them worth preserving.
After more than three decades leading the Dickinson Group of Companies, I’ve developed a passion for guiding others through these same transitions: keeping families aligned, businesses viable, and legacies enduring.
My work sits at the meeting point of business, family, and ownership systems — clarifying vision, restoring harmony, and strengthening continuity across generations. It’s grounded in a philosophy I call Moral Ambition: the will to achieve without losing one’s humanity on the climb, ensuring that growth strengthens others as much as it advances ourselves.
SUCCESSION
Preparing the next generation for stewardship and leadership
GOVERNANCE
Creating structures that uphold fairness, accountability, and trust within both the business and the family.
LEGACY & VALUES
Clarifying the moral DNA that defines the family and ensures continuity across generations.
LEADERSHIP & RENEWAL
Developing emotionally intelligent, resilient leaders who can grow through change and sustain unity through transition.
OUR VISION
To be a trusted partner to business families — helping them build enterprises that last, not only in wealth but in wisdom, unity, and moral purpose.
OUR MISSION
Family Legacies partners with business families to clarify vision, align generations, and strengthen the systems that hold family, ownership, and business together.
We combine lived experience with structured methodology to enable continuity, emotional health, and lasting prosperity.
OUR VALUES
Our philosophy is guided by five enduring principles — drawn from a century of family enterprise and the timeless disciplines of moral ambition:
AUTHENTICITY
Integrity not as image, but as alignment between what we think, feel, say, and do.
EMOTIONAL AWARENESS
Conscious leadership that balances empathy with clarity.
WHOLE WELL-BEING
Sustaining the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy to lead well.
PERSONAL MASTERY
Developing awareness, resilience, and self-leadership as the foundation for guiding others and building lasting enterprises.
INNER STILLNESS
The calm centre from which clarity, patience, and sound judgment arise — the place where legacy is shaped.
INVITATION
Is Your Family Business Ready for Its Next Chapter?
Family Legacies partners with business families to strengthen continuity, unity, and purpose across generations.
LET’S BEGIN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR FAMILY’S FUTURE — AND THE KIND OF LEGACY YOU WISH TO SET IN MOTION.