Hi. I’m Jonathan.
I am a creative executive and strategist who builds ecosystems, teams, and new ideas through storytelling. I help firms and executives tell the right story, at the right time, to the right people.
I grew up in New Hampshire, the son of a Trinidadian mother and a father from Florida. My life was jampacked with accents, questions, and conversations. My mom used to tak me to the library, and teach me the Dewey decimal system by getting lost in the stacks of books. If I needed to find something, she required me look for it, then explain how i found it. That was my first experience with research as a craft, and communication as a vector. I was hooked.
I’ve worked across the spectrum of communication, strategy, and go-to-market, but my sweetspot is building narrative ecosystems and messaging for delivering new ideas and brands that delight people, drive revenue, and create new markets.
After college, I I worked at LinkedIn on the editorial team, back when “Influencer” meant you were the only person who could write and share on the platform. I quit, and became co-founder of a company called Blavity Inc, which grew pretty quickly, and transformed the ecosystem. I left the business in 2018, I became a Nieman Fellow for a year, embeded with some of the best journalists in the world, as I studied intellectual property and its movements across diasporas. In 2019 I took a role as Editor-in-Chief at Red Table Talk, where I built products and experiences around the number one show on Facebook, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and her family. Most recently I was Executive Director of Narrative for Standard Chartered Bank.
My hope is to work inside the craft of narrative and storytelling for the rest of my life.
You can email me at jonathan@jonathandjackson.com
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