DOXA forges growth through order, truth and beauty
A Strategy + Storytelling + Photography consultancy
Strategy + Storytelling + Photography
DOXA is a boutique consultancy that forges growth through bringing order, truth and beauty to a chaotic world. We unite growth strategy, storytelling and photography deliverables to forge client ventures that enhance the human condition.
We partner with purpose-driven commercial and non-profit leaders - from technology, science and media to humanitarian, faith and the arts - to bring ideas to life.
Our mission: Growth through Order, Truth, Beauty.
Growth Strategy
Bring order to uncharted frontiers and challenges to forge growth
Storytelling
Uncover truth on complex themes to drive engagement
Photography
Capture beauty with compelling images to elicit emotional response
Close the Flourishing Gap
Despite astonishing progress, intractable human challenges remain, and people long for order, truth and beauty in a volatile world. Purpose-driven organizations seek to enable flourishing, but face market disruptions and a lack of resources to execute their vision.
DOXA’s credentials help close the flourishing gap.
We fuse Fortune 500 rigor - from decades of bringing order to uncharted frontiers and brands - with the craftsmanship of a creator capturing truth and beauty.
Our Process
DOXA is a hands-on, networked consultancy that bridges F500 strategy and museum-quality production. We not only advise the best strategic path to achieve your vision; we create and produce innovative assets to impact your market.
Build
We conduct an in-depth audit on your objectives and constituent needs to build and execute a measurable strategy and plan.
Create
We create a cohesive story that unifies messaging from the center across your brand, organization and constituencies.
Produce
We executive produce the story with narrative content and compelling images that elevate the mind and move the heart.
Growth Strategy
Bring order to uncharted frontiers
We bring order and scale to new ventures with high-growth strategies in technology, media, sustainability, global development.
We build new initiatives, ventures and brands through:
Big-picture growth strategy
Chief-of-staff planning & execution
Brand and results-driven integrated marketing
ROI: Revenue Growth, Market Share, Brand Equity
Our Services
Storytelling
Uncover truth on complex themes
We develop narratives that invite contemplation on themes such as suffering, loss polarization, happiness and meaning.
We create and direct content strategies through:
Narrative development (thought leadership, publications, books, events)
Global & new audience contextualization
Cross-platform impact
ROI: Engagement, Subscriptions, Lead Generation
Photography
Capture beauty with compelling images
We capture the beauty of the human condition with a photojournalist’s eye to spark imagination and impact emotions.
We use photography as a strategic asset:
Strategic visual narratives (advertising, photo-essays, books, exhibitions)
On-location image capture (9k+ library)
AI-driven visual innovation
ROI: Dwell Time, Saves & Shares, Brand Lift
DOXA Inaugural Work
Writing memoir on a deferred 30-year quest to find normalcy amid trauma and loss; a counter-cultural story.
Publishing photo-essay book exploring the beauty and pain of the human condition across 60+ countries.
Alliance for Smiles
Photographing Alliance for Smiles medical missions to emerging markets, documenting the impact on families.
Partners Worldwide
Advising global development organization on ventures addressing poverty, social impact in emerging markets.
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
Growth through Order, Truth, Beauty
“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
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 Partners Worldwide on 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.