Order, truth and beauty for a chaotic world
A Strategy + Narrative + Photography consultancy
DOXA puts glory to work
DOXA is the ancient Greek word for glory: what we see when order, truth and beauty come together.
We put that to work in three services, together or on their own: strategy to create order, narrative to uncover truth, and photography to capture beauty. We partner with leading organizations, from media, technology and science to humanitarian, faith and the arts, to bring purpose-led ideas to life.
Order, Truth, Beauty.
Strategy
Create order: growth plans for uncharted markets and difficult challenges
Narrative
Uncover truth: stories that bring clarity and contemplation to complex themes
Photography
Capture beauty: images of people and places that spark the imagination
Why DOXA
Organizations with purpose-led ideas have big goals but limited time, staff and budget, and face market disruption. Many end up hiring multiple firms to plan, create and execute.
DOXA does all three. We pair Fortune 500 rigor, from decades of building new businesses in uncharted markets, with a creator's craft, from a lifetime of narrative and visual work for world-class brands and photography in more than 60 countries.
How we work
DOXA is a hands-on creative consultancy. We plan the right path, then create and execute the work.
We start with an audit of your goals and audiences, then build a strategy with measurable targets
Plan
Create
We shape a clear, compelling initiative that ties together your brand, team and audiences
Execute
We bring that initiative to life with focused tactics and evocative words and images
Our services
Strategy: Create order
We turn ideas into working plans, drawing on decades of building new businesses in uncharted markets for Fortune 500 firms.
We architect and build new initiatives and brands:
Growth strategy
New business launch
Chief-of-staff planning and execution
Brand and integrated marketing
Results: Revenue growth, market share, brand equity
Narrative: Uncover truth
We develop stories that bring clarity and contemplation to complex themes like suffering, polarization and the impact of AI.
We plan and direct narrative work through:
Thought leadership: books, publications, articles
Events, webcasts & live experiences
Adapting for global and new audiences
Publishing across platforms
Results: Engagement, subscriptions, lead generation
Photography: Capture beauty
We photograph people and places with a photojournalist’s eye to spark imagination and wonder.
We use photography as a strategic asset for:
Visual journalism, photo essays & books
Events & exhibitions
On-location shoots plus library of 9,000+ images
AI-immersive experiences
Results: Dwell time, saves & shares, brand lift
Current work
Publishing a photoessay book on the beauty and pain of the human condition in 170+ photographs across the globe.
Writing a memoir of a 30-year search for normalcy amid trauma and loss.
Writing stories from travel, work and life, beginning with a meeting that upended expectations.
Alliance for Smiles
Photographing medical missions in emerging markets and their impact on families.
Partners Worldwide
Advising a global development organization on initiatives that address poverty 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
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
Russ Ackerman founded DOXA to bring together the two sides of his career: building new businesses for firms such as KPMG, Bertelsmann, P&G and Mars, and creating stories and images around the world.