Communications Strategy & Governance
I write the communications strategy, the digital governance policy and the change management framework an institution needs to make a change stick.
Portfolio Vol. 01
Communications Strategist
I build communications systems and data-driven AI solutions for public institutions and businesses. The goal is to reach the right people and move them to act efficiently.

What I believe
01A message is only as strong as the system behind it. A good line on its own changes nothing. The strategy, the content and the way it reaches people have to be built together, or the campaign does nothing at all. I work in public-sector communications, digital marketing and visual storytelling, and I use all three on the same problem.
AI belongs in that system now. Not as a novelty, but as the part that reads the data, finds the pattern and shows you where to aim next. It has become a real component of how I get results, and I am as deliberate about where it should not be used as where it should.
How I got here
02My first audience was a stage, not a boardroom. I grew up performing in Tobago and learned early what it takes to hold a room, and how quickly you can lose one.
Film taught me the other half. Behind a camera I learned how a message is really built, piece by piece, and how much of it is settled before anything is recorded. Eight years on, the work has run through entertainment, retail, international marketing and public administration. Different rooms, same problem.
Today I work in strategic communications. I help public institutions modernise how they speak to the people they serve, and I help businesses earn attention they can keep.


8+
Years in media, marketing and public communications
3
Transformation programmes led
10+
Certifications in communications and marketing
What I do
03A message rarely fails because the line was weak. It fails because the strategy, the content and the audience were planned apart from each other. I work across all five so they stay together.
I write the communications strategy, the digital governance policy and the change management framework an institution needs to make a change stick.
Multi-channel campaigns, media buying and sales funnels, plus the data and AI tooling that reads what happened and shows where to aim next, in the public sector and in private business.
Onsite capture, editing, post-production workflow and drone camera work. Everything I shoot is built for distribution, not for the shelf.
Stakeholder engagement, digital support workshops and brand alignment across divisions.
Keynotes, workshops and multi-week courses delivered to teams, executives and public-sector divisions, built from programmes I have already designed and run myself.
What I take on
04Four kinds of problem, from a decade of practice in government, retail, media and international marketing. The client changes each time. The method holds.
Government & institutional
Large-scale change inside organisations where the audience is internal, sceptical and hard to reach. I build the strategy, the message architecture and the alignment across divisions that carries a programme from announcement to adoption.
Public sector & regulated environments
The governance, engagement and change-management frameworks that let digital services scale responsibly. I write them to be adopted, not published.
Group, retail & media
The marketing engine behind a growing group of companies: brand, campaign planning, media buying and the measurement that shows what worked.
Broadcast, digital & social
Production from end to end: capture, edit, post and distribution, with a workflow that holds up against a real deadline. For organisations that need steady output, not one film.
Where I've worked
05Seven roles, condensed into the five things that matter most. Hover or focus a panel for the detail.
I lead communications for the Tobago House of Assembly's online strategy.
Jun 2026 – Present
Communications Strategist, Office of Public Administration, Modernization and Digital Transformation
Years delivering broadcast-standard content to a hard deadline.
Sep 2024 – Jun 2026
Technical Production Officer II / Video Editor I, Information Division, Office of the Chief Secretary
General manager across wholesale and media, with marketing on top of it.
Oct 2021 – 2024
General Manager & Creative Consultant, Windies Wholesalers & WindiesMedia
Produced by me and funded by the Tobago Festivals Commission.
Jun 2019 – Jul 2021
Content Producer, Bliss Entertainment Ltd.
International campaigns, media buying, and then teaching it.
2018 – 2019
Digital Marketing Strategist (Thailand) & Digital Marketing Lecturer · Marketing Assistant, G.R.A.D.S.
Training & qualifications
06The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Financial analysis, communications, business strategy and market dynamics.
12 certifications shown
Microsoft · Coursera
Media relations, stakeholder management and crisis communications, taught to a professional standard. This is the formal base under everything else I do.
Inter-American Development Bank
Development-sector project delivery: planning, execution and evaluation. This is what turns a communications strategy into a programme that lands.
University of Pennsylvania · Coursera
SkillUp · Coursera
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Pennsylvania
IE Business School
Aptly
Certificate
Meta
The Commonwealth
Speaking & Training
07Keynotes, workshops and multi-week courses in digital communications, content, blockchain and AI literacy, for teams, executives and public institutions.
See speaking & trainingThe archive


Contact
08Working on a campaign, a communications strategy, or a story that needs telling? Tell me where you are headed and we will work out how to get there.
Email me · meet@dexterwilsonjr.comThe archive
09Photographs from across the years. A visual record of the work and the years that shaped it.
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