Keynotes • Workshops • Research Presentations
Speaking That Moves People From Connection to Action
Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price, MBA, PMP, APR brings more than two decades of business experience, original research, and practical strategy to conversations about networking, business development, entrepreneurship, professional confidence, and organizational growth.
As Founder & Principal of The Networking Dr™ and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Pepperdine University's Graziadio Business School, she bridges two worlds: what the research tells us about relationships, networks, confidence, and opportunity — and what professionals and organizations actually need to do with that information.
Her sessions are engaging, relevant, and actionable. Audiences leave with more than inspiration — they leave with a clearer understanding of how to build, strengthen, and activate relationships that support meaningful professional and business outcomes.
Signature Speaking Areas
Every session is grounded in research and shaped by real-world practice — tailored to your audience, your objectives, and your room.
Strategic Networking
Networking should be more than collecting contacts.
Dr. Stroman-Price helps audiences understand how intentional relationship-building can increase access to information, resources, visibility, collaboration, and opportunity.
- Building a network with intention
- Moving from contacts to meaningful relationships
- Identifying gaps in your existing network
- Strengthening follow-up and relationship cultivation
- Creating reciprocal professional relationships
- Activating networks around specific goals
- Building confidence in networking environments
Business Development & Relationship Strategy
Business development is ultimately a relationship business.
Beyond pipelines, proposals, and opportunity tracking are the relationships that create intelligence, access, partnerships, referrals, trust, and ultimately revenue. Dr. Stroman-Price brings more than two decades of experience across business development, marketing, communications, stakeholder engagement, and federal contracting to help organizations examine the relationship side of growth.
- Relationship-based business development
- Strategic stakeholder cultivation
- Networking for government contractors
- Turning relationships into qualified opportunities
- Building stronger partner and referral ecosystems
- Visibility and positioning in competitive markets
- Integrating networking into the business development lifecycle
Entrepreneurship, Networks & Opportunity
What happens when the network that helped you get here cannot help you get where you need to go next?
Drawing on her doctoral research on Black women entrepreneurs and business networks, Dr. Stroman-Price explores how entrepreneurs use relationships to gain access to clients, capital, information, resources, confidence, and community.
- Entrepreneurial self-efficacy and confidence
- Business networks and entrepreneurial success
- Social capital and access to opportunity
- Network gaps and resource constraints
- Visibility and resource-building behaviors
- Community as a source of entrepreneurial support
- How entrepreneurs adapt their networks during periods of change
Confidence, Visibility & Professional Presence
Strong professional relationships begin with knowing the value you bring into the room.
These sessions explore the relationship between confidence, visibility, professional identity, networking, and opportunity. Participants learn how to communicate their value more clearly and become more intentional about where, how, and with whom they build relationships.
Selected Speaking & Research Presentations
Dr. Stroman-Price has presented her research and participated in professional and academic conversations in the United States and internationally.
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Human in the Loop
Professional Development Workshop · Panelist
How organizations can preserve human connection, partnership, equity, dignity, and lived experience as artificial intelligence and digital transformation reshape the workplace.
Entrepreneurship at the Margins
Symposium · Moderator
A conversation examining entrepreneurship, institutional environments, access, and the experiences of entrepreneurs operating outside traditional centers of opportunity.
Evolutions in Virtual Work
Symposium · Panelist
The continued evolution of virtual work and its implications for careers, relationships, organizations, and the workplace.
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Symposium Presenter — presented research and perspectives at the intersection of entrepreneurship, networks, and organizational scholarship.
Gender, Work & Organization Special Issue Paper Development Workshop
Invited Presenter — presented research examining Black women founders, business networks, entrepreneurial success, and how entrepreneurs navigate their networks during periods of economic and institutional disruption.
Engaged Management Scholarship Conference
Presenter — presented scholarly research connecting business networks, entrepreneurship, and management practice.
Pepperdine University DBA Annual Conference
Presenter — presented doctoral research examining Black women entrepreneurs, business networks, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, barriers to resource access, and entrepreneurial success.
Research Meets Practice
Dr. Stroman-Price's work is grounded in both scholarship and application. Her doctoral dissertation, She Works Hard for the Money: Black Women Entrepreneurs, Business Networks, and Entrepreneurial Success, used a mixed-methods research design examining how entrepreneurs build and use business networks, the barriers that shape access to resources, and how confidence, relationships, visibility, resource-building, and community influence entrepreneurial outcomes.
She translates those insights into practical strategies through The Networking Dr™, where her work focuses on strategic networking, business development, marketing communications, and organizational growth.
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Qualitative interviews
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Built for the Room You Are Creating
Speaking engagements can be tailored to the audience, objectives, and format of your event — from high-level keynotes to highly interactive workshops where participants apply concepts directly to their own relationships, networks, or business goals.
Why Dr. DeJuan
Dr. Stroman-Price brings a combination of experience that allows her to speak across business, professional, and academic audiences.
Her professional career spans more than two decades across consulting, federal contracting, public health, strategic communications, business development, stakeholder engagement, and organizational leadership.
- Founder & Principal of The Networking Dr.™
- Post-Doctoral Researcher at Pepperdine University's Graziadio Business School
- Doctor of Business Administration
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Accredited in Public Relations (APR)
- Experienced business development, marketing, communications, and organizational growth practitioner
- Researcher focused on business networks, entrepreneurship, confidence, social capital, and access to opportunity
- International conference presenter
Bring The Networking Dr™ Into the Room
Your audience does not need another presentation telling them to "network more." They need to understand how relationships work, which relationships matter, where gaps exist, and how to build a network capable of supporting where they are trying to go next.
That is where the conversation begins.
Bring Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price to your next conference, leadership program, workshop, retreat, association event, or professional development experience.
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