Advancing the human condition through order, truth and beauty
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 advance the human condition.
DOXA is named for the ancient Greek word for glory.
Order + Truth + Beauty
DOXA seeks to enable advance human flourishing through order, truth and beauty. Despite astonishing human progress, many look for a better world in a distracted and impoverished culture. DOXA uses its Ventures + Content + Photography credentials to help close that gap:
Build Uncharted Ventures > to bring Order
Create Narrative Content > to seek Truth
Capture Evocative Photography > to show Beauty
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, medical advances, geopolitical stability, humanitarian progress, faith and global economic development.
Build Uncharted Ventures
We build uncharted initiatives, ventures and complex projects through:
Crafting big-picture strategy and plans
Forging robust, hands-on execution
Providing chief-of-staff support
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
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
We seek understanding and truth to make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward.
We help media, design, humanitarian, faith and international development organizations 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, contextualize and package stories across platforms including:
Books, thought leadership and articles
Documentaries and videos
Events, seminars and webcasts
We help you publish digital and physical content, edit and tailor content for diverse global and local audiences, and leverage content across a range of media platforms.
We capture Evocative Photography to show Beauty
We seek to show and illuminate beauty that sparks imagination, inspires wonder and invites contemplation.
We help a range of corporate, small business and non-profit organizations to capture and package photography to give 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
Photographic library for use
Photo-essay book production
Exhibitions and AI immersion initiatives
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
Inaugural DOXA Work
Alliance for Smiles
Photographer to document Alliance for Smiles mission to Afghanistan Spring 2026.
Third Way Capital
Advisor to pan-African investment firm for SMEs to achieve sustainable impact for people and the planet.
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.
Ventures Work
BERTELSMANN
Built the first global e-commerce markets at Bertelsmann.
GREY
Built Grey Eastern European operation into top 5 rank.
Third Way Capital
Advisor to pan-African investment firm for SMEs to achieve sustainable impact for people and the planet.
PRODIGY
Opened new leading internet markets and content operations across Africa for Prodigy.
KPMG
Launched leading Sustainability practice, expanded Eurasia geopolitical alliance, forged leading International Corridors cross-border channel.
MARS
Pioneered entirely new confectionary and food markets newly opened Eastern Europe.
Procter & Gamble
Pioneered new household and personal care markets and brands in post-Communist Eastern Europe.
05May90
Writing 05May90 memoir on a deferred 30-year quest for normalcy amid trauma and loss.
Content Work
KRAFT
Brand content for Kraft natural cheese.
JWT
Built Kraft and SC Johnson brand food and household product portfolios in US.
Camay
Brand content for Kraft natural cheese.
Downy
Brand content for Downy
KRAFT
Brand content for Kraft natural cheese.
Mr Clean
Brand content for Mr Clean
Marx to Market
Authored publication on East European consumer, economic trends; excerpted by the Economist.
The Economist
Co-produced 10-part media series Big Questions for a Sustainable Future on critical issues.
HGM Outlook
Authored thought leadership on challenges of High Growth Markets cross-border investment.
Pledge
Brand content for Pledge
M&Ms
Presence marketing content including Live Aid approach
Mars
Presence marketing content including Live Aid approach
BOL.com
Brand content
KPMG
Tbought Leadership, Articles, Webcasts, Seminars, Events
Photography Work
Paradox
Publishing Paradox photo-essay book spanning 60+ countries in search of beauty amid pain, with AI-enhanced immersive exhibit.
Photo Library
Photo library of 10,000+ photos from travels to over 60 countries.
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.
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.
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