DOXA builds ventures that bring order, truth and beauty
A Strategy + Content + Photography consultancy
Strategy + Content + Photography
DOXA is a consultancy that creates and builds ventures that bring order, truth and beauty to a chaotic world. We unite growth strategy, narrative content and compelling photography for initiatives that improve the human condition.
We partner with purpose-driven leaders - from technology, science, and media to humanitarian, faith, and the arts - to bring vital ideas to life.
Our mission: Bring order. Seek truth. Show beauty.
Order + Truth + Beauty
Despite astonishing progress, intractable human challenges remain, and people look for more in a volatile and complex world. Purpose-driven organizations seek to enable flourishing, but face market disruptions and have more ideas than resources to effect.
DOXA’s credentials help close the flourishing gap.
We fuse Fortune 500 rigor - from decades of bringing order to uncharted ventures - with the heart of a creator capturing truth and beauty.
Strategy
Growth Strategy: We bring Order
We develop and execute high-growth strategies for uncharted market opportunities, bringing order and scale to new ventures.
We build new ventures, brands, initiatives through:
Big-picture growth strategy
Chief-of-staff planning & execution
Results-driven, integrated marketing
Content
Narrative Content: We seek Truth
We develop narratives that connect with our human longing for understanding and make sense of life’s complexities.
We create and direct compelling content through:
Narrative development (publications, books, events)
Global & new audience contextualization
Strategic impact across platforms
Photography
Compelling Photography: We show Beauty
We capture the beauty of the human condition amid the chaos to spark an emotional response and invite contemplation.
We strategically integrate and innovate photography through:
Strategic Visual Narratives (advertising, photo-essays, books, exhibitions)
On-location image capture (9k+ library)
AI-driven visual innovation
“In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order.”
— CARL JUNG
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
““We do not want merely to see beauty … we want to pass into it.”
— CS LEWIS
Bring order. Seek truth. Show beauty.
Career Work
J Walter Thompson
KPMG
KRAFT
Mars
Procter & Gamble
Prodigy
Downy
The Economist
Eurasia Group
Glade
M&Ms
Mr Clean
Pantene
Pledge
Snickers
Uncle Ben’s
GREY
BERTELSMANN
Camay
SC Johnson
DOXA is named after the ancient Greek word for glory.
Human Flourishing
Our ultimate goal is human flourishing: the dynamic process of realizing our potential and contributing to the common good.
We believe this is enabled through the experience of order, truth and beauty.
Founder
For Russ Ackerman, DOXA is the work he has been preparing to do his entire life. A lifelong creator and builder, he founded DOXA as the capstone of his journey: a Strategy + Content + Photography consultancy to help bring order, truth, and beauty to a chaotic world.
His work is born from a rare intersection: the Fortune 500 rigor of a builder and the heart of a creator.
As a builder, Russ brought order to uncharted ventures and brands his entire career. He has forged market-leading International, Sustainability and Geopolitical practices for KPMG; built Bertelsmann’s first global e-commerce markets; opened Africa’s internet content markets for Prodigy; pioneered new consumer categories for P&G and Mars in post-Communist Eastern Europe; and created content for top-tier media and agencies like The Economist and Grey.
As an creator, he sought truth and beauty through complex life experiences. On a round-the-world journey at 30, he discovered photography’s ability to capture glimpses of the human condition. With his late wife, Sue, a designer, he co-created beauty and sought truth while navigating her 20-year medical trauma, later deepening perspectives as a Gotham Theology Fellow. This journey yielded an archive of thousands of images and reflections – a deep well he now draws from for his content and photography.
Today, he fuses these experiences at DOXA, advising ThirdWay Capital on Sub-Saharan ventures addressing poverty, producing Paradox, a photo-essay book on beauty amid pain across 60+ countries, writing May Fifth memoir of a deferred quest for normalcy, and photographing Alliance for Smiles medical missions.
He lives in Connecticut in the home he co-designed with Sue, and savors time with his grown children, Adriana and Alexander, and dog, Moose.