Dr. Rivka Starck

Rivka Starck, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and marketing and strategic planning consultant for nonprofit and commercial organizations. She is director of Marketing, Strategy, and Communications at the Institute for Applied Research and Community Collaboration (ARCC). In her longest-held position, she has been employed by The Big Boss as far back as she can remember, and continually strategizes ways to improve her job performance within The Organization.

Op-Eds

Teshuvah And Strategic Planning: Seeing The Forest For The Trees

By Dr. Rivka Starck

SWOT analysis: Assessing resources, internal Strengths&Weaknesses; external Opportunities&Threats.

Family

Twisted Values and the Tyranny of Short-sightedness: A Plea to Love Our Daughters as Much as We “Love” Our Sons

By Dr. Rivka Starck

Yes, beauty plays a role in courtship. But when we allow it to rule, then we – not beauty – become our daughters’ tyrants. We are fearful our daughters will remain single for too long, and so we grasp at straws – thin, brittle, unstable straws. But “extreme makeovers” and intensifying their already ample body-image anxieties are not the answer.