Damaris Patterson Price

"I help leaders unlock the competence & confidence to drive great business results with & through their unique people & teams."

Damaris Patterson Price is the principal of Working River Leadership Consulting—a northeast Ohio Talent Development boutique that designs and delivers coaching, consulting, and learning products to grow the Leadership, Career, Inclusion, and Managerial competencies of an organization’s most powerful asset: its leaders.

Included in her portfolio is Excellence through Inclusion. Arguably now more than ever before, organizations must lean into the work of making every unique person within a blended team feel valued. Passive neutrality is no longer an option, while untold value awaits organizations who choose to actively engage. Damaris Patterson Price has worked as a consultant and educator in the Inclusion space since the ’90s. Equipped with this experience, proven diagnostic tools, and actionable forward-looking strategies to offer, Damaris Patterson Price also serves as a capable and trustworthy partner to organizations as they traverse their unique Inclusion journeys.

A seasoned professional, Damaris Patterson Price has provided executive coaching, strategy,, and other development services to leaders in 6 countries: the US, Canada, UK, India, Spain, and Germany. Her work is the product of nearly 30 years in the people-development business focused on leadership talent growth for next-level roles. Informed by her own experiences coaching and managing leaders, her solutions have been effectively applied by a broad and diverse spectrum of people within Corporate Retail firms, Commercial Real Estate companies, Chemical labs, Financial Services, Marketing & PR firms, Higher Education and Independent School administration, Insurance providers, Tech companies, Non-Profits, Specialty Food Manufacturers, Foundations, Industry and Professional Associations, Large Hospital Systems, and Law Firms.

Damaris is the author of Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are, which Kirkus Reviews describes as a “road map,” “a practical, in-depth guide and the closest thing to having a personal career coach.”

Damaris Patterson Price holds a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology. She is a certified Organizational Development and Inclusion practitioner and a Board-Certified Executive Coach–with additional credentials from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Forbes Coaches Council. Damaris and her children, a set of twins, live in northeast Ohio.