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Your relationships shape your opportunities. Let’s make them work for you.

The Networking Dr.™ helps professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations build meaningful connections, strengthen their influence, and create opportunities for lasting professional and business growth.

Through strategic advisory services, practical frameworks, and research-informed insights, we bring intention and purpose to the relationships that move people and organizations forward.

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Build Confidence • Build Community • Build Connections

Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price, founder of The Networking Dr.™

20+ years

Strategy, research, and practice

Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price

Founder, The Networking Dr.™
Business strategist, researcher, and educator

Welcome to The Networking Dr.™

I’m Dr. DeJuan. I’m Glad You’re Here.

I've spent more than two decades helping people and organizations build relationships, communicate their value, and pursue opportunities that move their work forward.

Along the way, I've learned that meaningful relationships are among our most valuable professional resources. Yet too often, we leave them to chance.

I created The Networking Dr.™ to change that.

Here, you'll find strategic guidance, practical tools, original insights, and opportunities to think differently about how you connect, collaborate, and grow.

Whether you're advancing your career, building a business, leading a team, or strengthening an organization, there's a place for you here.

Let’s figure out what comes next.

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How We Help

Big Goals Require the Right Connections and Strategy.

Professional success and organizational growth are shaped by more than individual talent. They depend on relationships, positioning, strategic decisions, and access to opportunities.

The Networking Dr.™ provides advisory services that help individuals and organizations strengthen those capabilities and move forward with greater intention.

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Networking Strategy

Build the Relationships That Open Access.

Build the relationships that open access to decision-makers, partners, markets, and opportunity. We turn networking from chance encounters into an intentional strategy, grounded in the Connection Blueprint™ and the R.I.S.E. Framework™.

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Business Development

Relationship-Led Growth With Pipeline Discipline.

Strengthen pipeline discipline, opportunity development, partnership strategy, and relationship-led growth, so the relationships you build translate into measurable revenue infrastructure.

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Marketing & Communications

Make Your Expertise Visible to the Right Audiences.

Clarify positioning and make expertise visible to the audiences who influence trust, consideration, and action, through strategic messaging, thought leadership, and integrated communications.

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Organizational Growth

Move Strategy Beyond Discussion.

Align people, priorities, communication, and execution so strategy moves beyond discussion. We help teams dismantle silos and build the systems that connect relationships to results.

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Ways to Work Together

Choose the level of support that fits the challenge, team, and moment.

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Advisory & Consulting

Ongoing strategic partnership across growth, relationships, business development, visibility, and organizational priorities.

Best for: Sustained strategy + execution

02

Strategy Intensives

Focused diagnosis and decision support when a defined challenge or opportunity requires a clear path forward.

Best for: Defined challenge + rapid clarity

03

Workshops & Facilitation

Customized sessions that move teams from discussion to shared decisions, alignment, and action.

Best for: Teams + organizations

04

Speaking & Executive Education

Research-informed keynotes, moderated conversations, and executive learning that translate evidence into action.

Best for: Conferences + leadership audiences

Ready to make relationships work harder for the business? Start with a Strategy Readiness Consultation.

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Not Sure Where to Begin?

Let’s Find Your Starting Point.

Your goals are unique, and your strategy should reflect that. Whether you’re investing in your own growth or creating opportunities for others, there’s more than one way to work with The Networking Dr.™

For Professionals

Advance Your Next Chapter.

For executives, career changers, emerging leaders, and professionals seeking greater visibility, confidence, and strategic relationships.

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For Entrepreneurs & Business Owners

Grow Your Business With Intention.

For founders, consultants, and business owners seeking stronger partnerships, greater visibility, business development support, and access to opportunities.

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For Organizations & Teams

Build Stronger Teams and Networks.

For organizations, associations, professional chapters, HR and learning and development leaders, and groups seeking strategic advisory, training, and organizational development.

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Signature Approaches

Turn Insight Into Action.

Our signature offerings bring structure and intention to professional relationship development. Built on research and practical experience, they help individuals and organizations better understand how relationships contribute to opportunity and growth.

Signature Diagnostic

The Connection Blueprint™

Get Clear About Your Network.

A personalized networking diagnostic designed to help you understand your existing professional relationships, identify potential gaps, and develop a more intentional strategy for building connections that support your goals.

A structured networking diagnostic.
A personalized strategic report.
A one-on-one debrief with Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price.

Investment: $500

Payment plans and gift purchases are available.

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Original Research

The R.I.S.E. Framework™

A Framework for Connection, Confidence, and Opportunity.

Grounded in original research on Black women entrepreneurs and professional networks, the R.I.S.E. Framework™ explores four important dimensions of networking and entrepreneurial development.

Resource Building: Access to the networks, capital, and information that growth requires.
Intentional Visibility: Being seen and known by the people who influence opportunity.
Supportive Community: Relationships that provide affirmation, guidance, and encouragement.
Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy: The confidence to act on opportunity and persist through challenge.

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Experience Meets Evidence

Strategy Informed by Research. Grounded in Experience.

The Networking Dr.™ brings together more than 20 years of experience in business strategy, consulting, marketing, communications, and organizational growth with original research examining how professional networks influence entrepreneurship and opportunity.

This combination informs a practical approach to helping clients build meaningful relationships, strengthen their positioning, and create opportunities for lasting growth.

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Pepperdine University, Graziadio Business School
AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellow
Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Center for Black Entrepreneurship Fellow
Black Economic Alliance Foundation, Spelman & Morehouse Colleges
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Pepperdine University, Graziadio Business School

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