Advancing the human condition through order, truth and beauty
DOXA: your Creator + Builder consultancy
Creator + Builder
DOXA is a Creator + Builder consultancy that helps your organization build uncharted ventures, create narrative content and capture photography that advances the human condition. We seek to bring order, truth and beauty to a chaotic world.
DOXA is named for the ancient Greek word for glory.
We Seek to:
We Seek to:
Bring Order
We grow opportunities and confront intractable challenges head-on. We seek the build out of ethical AI, climate action, medical advances, geopolitical stability and global economic development
Build Uncharted Ventures
We architect big-picture strategy and plans, and build new initiatives, ventures and brands with a robust, hands-on execution.
Achieve Growth
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures.
Seek Truth
We craft narratives that make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward. We document stories on suffering, loss, displacement, misinformation and the ever-present search for meaning.
Create Narrative Content
We co-create, edit, package, contextualize and leverage stories across platforms from articles, books, videos, webcasts, seminars, events and documentaries.
Publish and Leverage
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures.
We Create + Build:
You Benefit
Create Beauty
We create aesthetics that spark imagination, inspire wonder and invite contemplation. We are drawn to photography as well as art, architecture, design and all visual expressions, from classic to contemporary
Capture Visual Beauty
We co-create, shoot, edit and package photography and other visual expressions such as art, design and spaces.
Publish and Leverage
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures
Order + Truth + Beauty
DOXA seeks to elevate human flourishing. Despite astonishing human progress, many look for a better world in the midst of a distracted, impoverished and ever-changing culture. DOXA works to close the human flourishing gap across three dimensions: order, truth and beauty.
We Seek to:
We Seek to:
Bring Order
We grow opportunities and confront intractable challenges head-on. We seek the build out of ethical AI, climate action, medical advances, geopolitical stability and global economic development
Build Uncharted Ventures
We architect big-picture strategy and plans, and build new initiatives, ventures and brands with a robust, hands-on execution.
Achieve Growth
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures.
Seek Truth
We craft narratives that make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward. We document stories on suffering, loss, displacement, misinformation and the ever-present search for meaning.
Create Narrative Content
We co-create, edit, package, contextualize and leverage stories across platforms from articles, books, videos, webcasts, seminars, events and documentaries.
Publish and Leverage
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures.
We Create + Build:
You Benefit
Create Beauty
We create aesthetics that spark imagination, inspire wonder and invite contemplation. We are drawn to photography as well as art, architecture, design and all visual expressions, from classic to contemporary
Capture Visual Beauty
We co-create, shoot, edit and package photography and other visual expressions such as art, design and spaces.
Publish and Leverage
You achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures
Beauty:
We capture photography to publish and leverage
Create Beauty
We create aesthetics that spark imagination, inspire wonder and invite contemplation. We are drawn to photography as well as art, architecture, design and all visual expressions, from classic to contemporary
Capture Visual Beauty
We co-create, shoot, edit and package photography and other visual expressions such as art, design and spaces.
Publish and Leverage
We help you publish digital/offline photography in articles, exhibitions, documentaries, AI immersion initiatives and leverage for new audiences and platforms; resource for art, design, spaces initiatives.
“We do not want merely to see beauty … we want to pass into it.”
— CS LEWIS
Creator + Builder
We help organizations Create + Build human flourishing initiatives across the corporate, small business and non-profit spheres: including media, design, art, technology, AI, climate, medical, humanitarian, faith and global economic development entitites.
“We do not want merely to see beauty … we want to pass into it.”
— CS LEWIS
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
“In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order.”
— CARL JUNG
Order:
We build uncharted ventures to help you grow
Order
We bring order and scale to opportunities and confront intractable challenges head-on. We seek the build out of ethical AI, climate action, medical advances, geopolitical stability and global economic development.
Build Uncharted Ventures
We architect big-picture strategy and plans and build new initiatives, ventures and brands with a robust, hands-on execution.
Growth
We help you achieve growth from launching new initiatives, reaching new audiences, industries, global geographies and markets, and transforming current ventures.
“In all chaos, there is a cosmos; in all disorder, a secret order.”
— CARL JUNG
Truth:
We co-create narrative content to publish for global audiences
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Truth
We seek understanding that make sense of life’s complexities and uncertainties and help navigate forward. We document stories on suffering, loss, displacement, misinformation and the ever-present search for meaning.
Co-Create Narrative Content
We co-create, edit, package, contextualize and leverage stories across platforms from articles, books, videos, webcasts, seminars, events and documentaries.
Publish
We help you publish digital/offline articles, books, videos, webcasts, seminars, events, documentaries and tailor for global audiences and other platforms
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.
Human Flourishing
Human flourishing is enhanced through the experience of beauty, truth and order and 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 four decades. A Creator + Builder, Russ pursued beauty, truth, and order across life and work. He founded DOXA as the capstone of that journey—a hands-on partner to organizations advancing the human condition. DOXA creates photography, content and strategy initiatives and builds uncharted ventures that bring beauty, truth and order to a chaotic world, fusing Fortune 500 rigor, a technology mindset and an artisan’s hand.
Russ turns ideas into realities. Early in his career, he created content for blue-chip brands like Kraft, then traveled round-the-world solo to better understand the human condition, and fell in love with photography. He co-created beauty for decades with his late wife, Sue, a designer, and later deepened cultural insight as a Gotham Theology Fellow.
Professionally, in parallel, he launched market-leading International, Sustainability and Geopolitical practices at KPMG; built Bertelsmann’s first global e-commerce markets; opened Africa’s internet markets for Prodigy; and pioneered new consumer categories for Procter & Gamble and Mars in post-Communist Eastern Europe.
Today he is fusing these strands at DOXA through Paradox, a photo-essay book 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 two grown children, Adriana and Alexander, and the family dog, Moose.