Advancing the human condition
DOXA: a Creator + Builder consultancy
Creator + Builder
DOXA is a Creator + Builder 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 advances the human condition.
DOXA is named for the ancient Greek word for glory.
Order + Truth + Beauty
DOXA seeks to enable human flourishing. Despite astonishing human progress, many look for a better world in a distracted and impoverished culture. DOXA uses its Creator + Builder credentials to close the flourishing gap across three dimensions: order, truth and beauty.
We Bring Order and Build Uncharted Ventures
Order
We bring order and scale to opportunities and confront intractable challenges head-on with Fortune 500 rigor. We seek the build out of ethical AI and technology, climate action, medical advances, geopolitical stability, humanitarian progress, faith-based and global economic development.
Build Uncharted Ventures
We build uncharted initiatives and complex projects through architecting big-picture strategy and plans and forging robust, hands-on execution and chief-of-staff support. We help you achieve growth from new initiatives that reach new audiences, industries and global geographies, as well as transforming current ventures.
“In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order.”
— CARL JUNG
We Seek Truth and Create Narrative Content
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth
We seek understanding to make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward. We seek timeless discernment and are drawn to stories on the challenges of human flourishing including suffering, loss, displacement, misinformation and the search for meaning.
Create Narrative Content
We partner with organizations to create, contextualize and package stories across platforms from articles, books, videos, webcasts, seminars, events and documentaries. We help media, design and other firms publish digital/offline content, tailor for global and local audiences and leverage across platforms.
We Create Beauty and Capture Evocative Photography
Beauty
We create aesthetics that spark imagination, inspire wonder and invite contemplation. We are drawn to glimpses of the human experience and otherworldly beauty and seek to express with an artisan’s hand. We focus on photography as well as all visual expressions, from classic to contemporary.
Capture Evocative Photography
We shoot, edit and package photography across platforms from articles, exhibitions, documentaries and AI immersion initiatives. We help you publish digital/offline photography, as well as leverage images for new audiences and platforms and serve as a resource for art, design, and interior space initiatives.
“We do not want merely to see beauty … we want to pass into it.”
— CS LEWIS
Inaugural Work
Alliance for Smiles
Photojournalist to document Alliance for Smiles mission to Afghanistan Spring 2026.
NCVA Board
Board member for NCVA network of visual artists.
05May90
Writing 05May90 memoir on a deferred 30-year quest for normalcy amid trauma and loss.
Paradox
Publishing Paradox photo-essay book spanning 60+ countries in search of beauty amid pain, with AI-enhanced immersive exhibit.
Previous Work
Marx to Market
Authored publication on East European consumer, economic trends; excerpted by the Economist.
PRODIGY
Opened new leading internet markets and content operations across Africa for Prodigy.
Procter & Gamble
Pioneered new household and personal care markets and brands in post-Communist Eastern Europe.
Wiltonia
Co-launched curated line of home accessories with international elegance.
The Economist
Co-produced 10-part media series Big Questions for a Sustainable Future on critical issues.
BERTELSMANN
Built the first global e-commerce markets at Bertelsmann.
HGM Outlook
Authored thought leadership on challenges of High Growth Markets cross-border investment.
GREY
Coordinated Procter & Gamble Latin American household and personal care brands.
KPMG
Launched leading Sustainability practice, expanded Eurasia geopolitical alliance, forged leading International Corridors cross-border channel.
JWT
Built Kraft and SC Johnson brand food and household product portfolios in US.
MARS
Pioneered entirely new confectionary and food markets newly opened Eastern Europe.
KRAFT
Built Kraft General Foods food brands such as Kraft Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel and Casino.
Bio
Russ Ackerman has been preparing for DOXA for over four decades. A Creator + Builder, he has pursued order, truth, and beauty across his life and work. He founded DOXA, the capstone of that journey, as a hands-on partner to organizations advancing the human condition. The consultancy brings order, truth, and beauty to a chaotic world by building uncharted ventures, creating narrative content, and capturing evocative photography that enable human flourishing.
Russ’s career has been defined by forging order and creating content 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 sought truth and created beauty. At 30, he traveled solo around the world to better understand the human condition and discovered a passion for photography. He co-created beauty for decades with his late wife, Sue, a designer, while navigating her 20-year medical trauma, and later deepened his insight as a Gotham Theology Fellow - amassing tens of thousands of photographs and reflections along the way.
Today he fuses these experiences at DOXA through original work: Paradox, a photo-essay spanning 60+ countries that seeks beauty amid pain, and 05May90, a 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 his dog, Moose