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Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price, MBA, PMP, APR, is the Founder and Principal of The Networking Dr.™, a consulting and advisory firm focused on networking strategy, marketing and communications, business development, and organizational growth. Her work examines how confidence, relationships, and networks influence access to opportunity and business success. Dr. Stroman-Price earned her Doctor of Business Administration from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Her research, She Works Hard for the Money: Black Women Entrepreneurs, Business Networks, and Entrepreneurial Success, explores entrepreneurial self-efficacy, business networks, barriers, and the strategies Black women entrepreneurs use to build resources, visibility, and community. She is also a speaker, facilitator, researcher, and host of On Call: Connections & Conversations, where she explores the relationships, strategies, and systems that shape professional and entrepreneurial growth.

Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price, MBA, PMP, APR, is the Founder and Principal of The Networking Dr.™, where she helps professionals, entrepreneurs, organizations, and teams approach networking as a strategic business capability rather than a transactional exchange. Her work sits at the intersection of networking strategy, marketing and communications, business development, organizational growth, and research. Through The Networking Dr., Dr. Stroman-Price works with clients to strengthen confidence, develop meaningful professional relationships, expand access to opportunity, and build networks that can support business and career growth. Her work includes proprietary approaches such as the R.I.S.E.™ Framework, Connection Blueprint™, and Network Agility™, which translate relationship-building concepts into practical strategies for individuals and organizations. Dr. Stroman-Price earned her Doctor of Business Administration from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Her dissertation, She Works Hard for the Money: Black Women Entrepreneurs, Business Networks, and Entrepreneurial Success, used mixed-methods research to examine how entrepreneurial self-efficacy, network structure, barriers, and networking behaviors influence personal and financial outcomes for Black women entrepreneurs. Her research included thirty-six qualitative interviews and a national survey, with analysis focused on more than three hundred Black women entrepreneurs. Her academic and applied work focuses particularly on entrepreneurship, business networks, confidence and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, professional visibility, community, and the ways relationships can either expand or constrain access to resources and opportunity. She continues this work as a researcher and through presentations, policy-focused work, and practitioner engagement. Her professional background also includes leadership in business development, marketing, communications, and growth within the federal government contracting environment, with experience supporting work connected to agencies across health, human services, research, justice, housing, and other federal sectors. A Project Management Professional (PMP) and Accredited in Public Relations (APR), Dr. Stroman-Price brings together research, business strategy, communications, and relationship development in her work. She is also the host of On Call: Connections & Conversations, a podcast examining networking, confidence, business, professional growth, and the conversations that shape how people connect and move opportunities forward. Across her consulting, research, speaking, and facilitation work, Dr. Stroman-Price advances a central idea: strong networks are not simply about knowing more people. They are about building the confidence, relationships, and community needed to recognize opportunities, access resources, and act strategically when circumstances change.