CEO And Founder: Lorraine A. Stewart
Personal Mission Statement
“To serve others honorably, with excellence and compassion, through my personal actions and through the businesses that I develop”.
My personal mission statement is informed by my world view. The latter is based on a belief system grounded in my faith in God, and lived out in my daily life. It is a credo that believes giving, and caring for others, is a true path to excellence in serving and providing for our business customers.
This principle inevitably leads to outstanding products, consistently higher customer satisfaction, and ultimately it also drives profit and growth.
Therefore, Gold Mark Business Science operates efficiently and seamlessly at the nexus of Christian principles and business expertise. This makes us different and it makes us effective.
Lorraine A. Stewart
BIOGRAPHY
Lorraine A. Stewart was born in Jamaica, West Indies and migrated to the United States in her early teens.
She was raised in the Bronx and graduated from Adlai Stevenson High School at the age of 16, in the top 1% of her class, and having attained a New York State Regents Scholarship. She then attended Hunter College and completed an accelerated program, which combined both a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Master of Science in Social Research, specializing in marketing research.
Choosing a career path dedicated to helping others, she subsequently founded and directed a successful early childhood program in the Bronx, for several years. It was during that period that Lorraine attained a permanent New York State Teaching Certificate.
She was subsequently accepted into the Ph.d program in Counseling Psychology at New York University, where she successfully completed 96 credits.
Lorraine then moved to Florida to join her father (whom she also cared for in the final months of his life) and worked as a therapist with foster children, youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and also emotionally disturbed children and their families. She herself became a foster mother to severely emotionally disturbed children.
During her time in Florida, she also worked as an instructor at Broward Community College, helping seniors to navigate the mental and emotional difficulties associated with aging.
Additionally, she also volunteered at a senior living facility, a home health care agency, and at an hospice, developing training classes for both clients and employees.
Pursuing a call to follow her Christian faith, Lorraine completed ministry school, receiving a non- denominational Ministerial Certificate from the International School of Ministry in Boca Raton, Florida. Since her return to the New York City area, Lorraine has continued her impeccable career history of caring for our most vulnerable citizens, providing hands-on care for both children and the elderly. While continuing to work in Human Services, she diligently pursued her dream of developing a business model that would adhere to high standards of excellence and also be a conduit for giving to others.
In 2010, she harnessed her natural love for helping others, along with her training and expertise in business and human services, to begin building GOLD MARK BUSINESS SCIENCE, LLC, a company that designs and develops its own businesses, utilizing proprietary models developed by Lorraine. This was a natural segue from her decades long career providing leadership in caring for others, and in generating innovative, impactful and transformative solutions to assist clients.
With her distinctive background in business, education, counseling and human services, Lorraine is able to understand, articulate and transform the various challenges that businesses face, into effective and productive solutions. Gold Mark Business Science reflects the successful combination of Lorraine’s compassionate nature and her brilliant analytical mind.
In her personal time Lorraine is an avid reader, particularly of mysteries and historical novels. She also enjoys puzzles of all kinds and is a crossword aficionado. She remains a life-long dancer and regularly attends art events including the theater, movies, concerts, dance and music. She finds cooking fun and relaxing, and she loves to travel and explore new places.
THE COMPANY
Gold Mark Business Science is a business development entity that creates and establishes its own companies. Utilizing different models, Gold Mark’s purpose is to design and develop businesses, and then manage them, according to its own standards and principles.
OUR APPROACH
“Ours is an extraordinary approach to business”
In our very foundation and design is the principle that we generate profits in order to give to others and to improve lives.
We do not seek to generate profits for the sole purpose of accumulating profits, but rather, we seek to use profits to uplift and enhance the lives of others. And no, we are not a non-profit, we most definitely believe in profit. However we are different, because our driving force is to bring positive change to the lives of others, that is our ethos, our reason for being.
Profits help to manifest that inherent vision and to effectively implement our world-view of excellence, in concrete, tangible and measurable ways.
OUR STRATEGY
Our strategy is to establish a business ethos of integrity, care and best practices, that is replicated across our different companies and different products. It is our position that, with a foundation based on placing the well-being of people first, we can operate in the marketplace with a level of excellence, that benefits our customers, employees and the larger community.
Why We Do
What We Do?
One very significant and important aspect of developing our own companies is that we can use our model to drive profits that can then be directed to areas of giving that we feel most benefits our employees, customers and the larger community. Thus, Gold Mark has a measure of financial independence and flexibility which would not be as fully available to us, if we were working solely for other companies.
This focus on systematically using profits as a vehicle for giving to others, is essential to our business motto, which is “Excellence is our Worldview”. With our businesses, we can provide excellent products and simultaneously give to others. Today, there is a formal, codified relationship between Gold Mark Business Science and the companies that it originates and implements.
CAREGOLD ELDERCARE MANAGEMENT is the first company that Gold Mark has developed in its entirety, that is ready and available to serve customers.
Personal Mission Statement
“To serve others honorably, with excellence and compassion, through my personal actions and through the businesses that I develop”.
My personal mission statement is informed by my world view.
The latter is based on a belief system grounded in my faith in God, and lived out in my daily life. It is a credo that believes giving, and caring for others, is a true path to excellence in serving and providing for our business customers.
This principle inevitably leads to outstanding products, consistently higher customer satisfaction, and ultimately it also drives profit and growth.
Therefore, Gold Mark Business Science operates efficiently and seamlessly at the nexus of Christian principles and business expertise. This makes us different and it makes us effective.