The Connection Blueprint™
Claim Your Seat at the Table.
The Connection Blueprint™ shows you where your network stands today and what to do next.
- The Connection Blueprint™ diagnostic
- A personalized Blueprint report
- A one-on-one debrief with Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price
$500 · Payment completes before the diagnostic begins.
The Connection Blueprint™
Your Network Report
Network score: 65 / 100
Key takeaway
Your relationships and reputation are your strongest assets. The clearest opportunity is turning a wide network into fewer, deeper, reciprocal ones.
Illustrative sample. Your report is built from your own answers and your own goal.
The problem
Talent is not the bottleneck. Access is.
You are capable, credentialed, and you do the work. Yet the opportunities that matter still tend to reach people whose relationships are already in place.
Most professionals leave those relationships to chance: a conference here, a follow-up that never happens, a warm contact who quietly goes cold. None of that is a character flaw. It is an unmanaged system, and unmanaged systems favor whoever already has access.
The Connection Blueprint™ makes that system visible, so you can work it on purpose.
What it is
A diagnostic, not a personality test.
The Connection Blueprint™ is an assessment of your professional relationships, read against research on how networks actually produce opportunity.
It maps your relationships
A structured read on where your network actually stands today: who is in it, how strong each relationship is, and where it is thin.
It shows how to build trust systematically
Trust is not a mood. It is built in repeatable steps, and the Blueprint shows you where to apply them first.
It aligns your network with your goals
Your report connects your relationships to the opportunities you are actually pursuing, so effort goes where it moves the needle.
Who it is for
Built for professionals who are underestimated, not unprepared.
For you
Executives
Map your influence, and the gaps that make your next role harder to reach than it should be.
Federal contractors
Relationships shape recompetes. Know where your trust sits before the next award cycle.
Newly promoted leaders
A new title brings new rooms. Know who you need in your corner before the first big decision.
Federal professionals in transition
Your federal career built real relationships. See which ones carry into your next chapter.
Career changers
Moving into a new industry starts with knowing which relationships come with you and which you still need to build.
Consultants and solo practitioners
Your network is your pipeline. Find where referrals stall and where the next client is likely to come from.
Women business owners
Build a network that supports the business you are actually building, not the one you started with.
Doctoral students and academics moving into industry
Turn academic networks and research credibility into relationships outside the institution.
Gen Z and young millennials entering the workforce
Figure out your networking posture, your positioning, and your path forward before the habits set in.
For someone else or your team
Gift buyers (parents, family, mentors)
Give someone you're invested in a clear map of their network and a plan for using it.
Give it as a giftHR, talent, and L&D leaders
Give your team members a shared language for building relationships that support retention and growth.
Mission-driven organizations and leaders
Turn goodwill into durable partnerships you can count on between funding cycles.
Associations, chapters, and ERGs
Help your members build connections that last beyond the meeting or the event.
What you get
Three parts, one clear next step.
The Connection Blueprint™ diagnostic
A structured assessment that captures where your professional relationships stand today.
Your personalized Blueprint report
Your results, mapped: the strengths to lean on, the gaps to close, and what to do next.
A one-on-one debrief session
Walk through your results and next steps directly with Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price.
$500
One price for the diagnostic, the report, and the debrief. Payment completes before the diagnostic begins.
How it works
Four steps, in this order.
Purchase
Choose pay in full, a payment plan, or buy it as a gift at checkout.
Take the diagnostic
Your access unlocks once payment is complete. Answer the assessment at your own pace.
Receive your report
Your personalized Blueprint report is prepared from your responses.
Book your debrief
Schedule your one-on-one session with Dr. Stroman-Price to walk through the results and next steps.
Grounded in rigorous research, proven in practice
Built on doctoral research into how networks really work.
The Connection Blueprint™ is grounded in Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price's doctoral research at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School: “She Works Hard for the Money,” a study of how women entrepreneurs navigate professional networks.
Read the dissertation
About
Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price, MBA, PMP, APR
Founder and Principal of The Networking Dr.™, and Post-Doctoral Researcher at Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School. Her work focuses on how professionals, and particularly women entrepreneurs, build and use social capital to reach opportunity.
The Connection Blueprint™ translates that research into a diagnostic you can act on, followed by a conversation about what to do with what it reveals.
Give someone the Blueprint.
Purchase The Connection Blueprint™ as a gift and choose the day it is delivered. Your recipient receives your personal message and a unique redemption code that unlocks their own diagnostic, built around their own network.
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Claim Your Seat at the Table.
Know where your network stands, and exactly what to do next. The Connection Blueprint™ includes the diagnostic, your personalized report, and a one-on-one debrief.
Get Your Blueprint$500 · Payment completes before the diagnostic begins.