Bring order. Seek truth. Create beauty. Help thrive.
DOXA: a Ventures + Content + Photography consultancy
Ventures + Content + Photography
DOXA is a Ventures + Content + Photography consultancy that brings order, truth and beauty to a chaotic world. We partner with your organization to build uncharted ventures, create narrative content and capture evocative photography that help enrich lives.
DOXA is named for the ancient Greek word for glory.
Order + Truth + Beauty
DOXA seeks to enable human flourishing through order, truth and beauty. Despite astonishing progress, many look for something more in a distracted, self-focused and often painful, world.
DOXA’s Ventures + Content + Photography credentials help close the flourishing gap.
We build Uncharted Ventures to bring order
We bring order and scale to opportunities and confront intractable challenges head-on with Fortune 500 rigor.
We help organizations build ventures that enable ethical AI and technology, climate action, humanitarian progress, faith, global economic development, geopolitical stability, medical advances and others.
Build Uncharted Ventures
We build uncharted 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
We help you achieve growth from new initiatives that reach new audiences, industries and geographies, as well as transforming current ventures.
“In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order.”
— CARL JUNG
We create Narrative Content to seek truth
We seek understanding and truth to make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward.
We help media, design, humanitarian, faith, international development organizations and others create content that addresses human challenges such as suffering, loss, displacement, misinformation and the search for meaning.
Create Narrative Content
We partner with organizations to create, collaborate, contextualize and package stories across platforms:
Books, thought leadership and articles
Documentaries, films and videos
Events, seminars, webcasts and podcasts
We help you publish digital and physical content, collaborate and tailor content for diverse global and local audiences, and leverage content across a range of media platforms.
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
We capture Evocative Photography to show beauty
We seek to show and illuminate beauty that sparks the imagination, inspires wonder and invites contemplation.
We help a range of corporate, small business and non-profit organizations capture and package photography with a photojournalistic aesthetic that gives glimpses of the human experience and otherworldly beauty.
Capture Evocative Photography
We partner with organizations to capture, edit and package original and current photography through:
Photography shoots on location, photo library use
Photoessay book and exhibition production
Photoshop, LightRoom, AI immersion deployment
We help you publish digital and hard copy photography, edit original and current images and package for new audiences, platforms and projects.
“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 is enhanced through the experience of beauty, truth and order. It can be 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 uncharted ventures, create narrative content, and capture evocative photography that advance the human condition.
Russ’s career has been defined by building ventures with Fortune 500 rigor. He launched 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 for top-tier media and brands worldwide. At 30, he traveled round-the-world to better 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 over ten thousand photographs and reflections.
Today, he fuses these experiences at DOXA: Paradox, a photo-essay book documenting the search for beauty amid pain across 60+ countries, and 05May90, the memoir of a deferred 30-year quest for normalcy. 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.