DOXA builds ventures that bring order, truth and beauty
A Strategy + Content + Visual Impact advisory
Order + Truth + Beauty
DOXA is a values-led advisory that helps build ventures that bring order, truth and beauty to a chaotic world. We share your goal to advance the human experience. We thrive at the intersection of strategy, content and visual impact - expert at navigating uncharted and complex markets, delivering with executional excellence.
We seek to help build ventures that forge strong growth and elevate human flourishing.
DOXA is named for the ancient Greek word for glory.
Strategy + Content + Visual Impact
Despite astonishing progress, intractable human challenges remain and many are looking for something more in an often confusing and painful world. Organizations have noble objectives to do more, but are often time and resource constrained.
DOXA’s strategy, content and visual impact credentials can help close those gaps. We partner with your organization to bring your ideas to life.
We collaborate with a range of organizations - from technology, health and media to humanitarian, faith and art - to forge initiatives that elevate the human condition.
Strategy
Growth Strategy to bring order
We find order in complexity and build and execute strategies for growth in new and uncharted markets, scaling opportunities and confronting intractable challenges head-on with Fortune 500 rigor.
We build new strategic initiatives, ventures and complex projects through:
Crafting big-picture strategy and plans
Forging hands-on execution, chief-of-staff support
Deploying results-driven, integrated marketing
Content
Narrative Content to seek truth
We develop narrative content that connects with deep human longings for meaning and truth to make sense of life’s complexitities and uncertainties and help navigate forward.
We partner to create, direct, contextualize and package stories across platforms:
Books, thought leadership and articles
Documentaries, films and videos
Events, seminars, webcasts and podcasts
Visual Impact
Visual Impact to show beauty
We create and deliver aesthetic experiences including photography that reveal beauty and inspire action that sparks imaginations, inspires wonder and invites contemplation.
We partner with organizations to capture, edit and package photography through:
Photography shoots on location, photo library use
Photoessay book and exhibitions production
Adobe, AI and visual aesthetics
“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
BERTELSMANN
GREY
J Walter Thompson
KPMG
KRAFT
Mars
Procter & Gamble
Prodigy
Downy
The Economist
Eurasia Group
Glade
M&Ms
Mr Clean
Snickers
Uncle Ben’s
Camay
SC Johnson
Pledge
Pantene
Human Flourishing
Human flourishing can be enhanced through the experience of beauty, truth and order. It is described as the dynamic process of realizing one's ultimate potential and contributing to the common good.
Founder
Russ Ackerman has been preparing for DOXA for over four decades.
A lifelong creator and builder, Russ founded DOXA as the capstone of that journey: a Venture + Content + Photography consultancy that brings order, truth, and beauty to a chaotic world. DOXA partners with organizations to build new strategic ventures, create narrative content, and capture evocative photography that advance the human experience.
Russ’s career has been defined by building new ventures with Fortune 500 rigor. He forged market-leading International, Sustainability, and Geopolitical practices at KPMG; built Bertelsmann’s first global e-commerce markets; opened Africa’s internet content markets for Prodigy; and pioneered new consumer categories for Procter & Gamble and Mars in post-Communist Eastern Europe.
In parallel, he created and directed content and visual-driven initiatives for top-tier media and brands worldwide. At 30, he traveled round-the-world to understand the human condition and discovered photography’s ability to capture glimpses of the human experience. With his late wife, Sue, a designer, he co-created beauty while navigating her 20-year medical trauma, later deepening his insights as a Gotham Theology Fellow - amassing thousands of photographs and reflections.
Today, he fuses these experiences at DOXA: advising ThirdWay Capital on Sub-Saharan ventures, producing Paradox, a photo-essay book on the search for beauty amid pain across 60+ countries, and May Fifth, memoir of a deferred 30-year quest for normalcy. He lives in Connecticut in the co-designed with Sue, and savors time with his grown children, Adriana and Alexander, and dog, Moose.