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V i s i o n  STRATEGY

After research and love of her personal collections, Loretta believes she has the story of the original Mona Lisa by DaVinci, shown left of the print on right.  Beatrice D'Este of Milan. Leonardo da Vinci may have mourned her the the creation of the Mona Lisa. Loretta is available to give talks on the subject.

May 2023 Interview followed by LIVE chat webinar balancing VISION Statement and VISION Strategy with new business world concerns of the day.

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       Founder  Loretta Jones, developed a love of visuals growing up on Staten Island's Grymes Hill(shown here from across the NYC harbor). Originally reported online as the highest land elevation along the eastern seaboard. Aside from the beautiful sky itself and lighting the sun up there provided at different times of day, even the stars at night, views enjoyed Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn with the Verrazzano Bridge, other parts of Staten Island, New Jersey and the Poconos not to mention the water itself combining fresh and salt water into a blue mix from the distance as tugboats, sailboats, occasional ships and tankers with what was the only ferry at the time, the Staten Island Ferry that she happily recommends riding to anyone unfamiliar with its one-hour to-and-fro with request you enjoy its outer decks for best views. 

       The Bayonne Bridge of lights in a semi-circle appeared at first to Loretta as a friendly Feris wheel in the distance. On an uppermost elevation along the hilltop was a tennis court where all sides of the views were available. Active, yes, with a different kind of bustle though the city stride itself was acquired when Loretta was just a toddler accompanying her parents to Manhattan and she herself worked in the financial district at the very beginning of Water Street at just 15 in a high school co-op program for a year commuting like in the later movie 'Working Girl'. She went on to create a career in what was her favorite task in any of her work and even her decorating at home and later for clients, the visuals. Visual Merchandising was something she did even as an executive with Bloomingdale's right out of college. With a housewares chain Lechter's, that Loretta opened, staffed and ran a premiere 'largest store in Soho', she further honed the one-of-a-kind skills of creating a certain focus through a foundational VISION inspiring positive tangible results like her track record 30% sales gains for many companies to come.. 

       Now , as NY Gold Tours CEO founder and former NYC licensed tour guide, she uses this know-how to bring VISION Strategy through proprietary products and services, a shopping company Gold de la Locale and its GDLL brands with modern and foresight driven concepts and practical science-based and neurologically astute pragmatics for her clients. A goal of betterment for the world through betterment for her corporate, tech, academia, sciences, U.S. governmental(if awarded) and individual by invitation or application, customer. Available in a self, project, team, goals, company or industry fitness series of smartTALKs, smartWALKs, smartFIT exercise classes, smartTRIPs field trip opps with chance for NYGT Shops and Pods as well as the NEW Retail:Restaurant Hybrids bringing forward the untapped resource of yet measurable applied practice amd science of her proprietary VISION Strategy. She brainstormed the VS concepts, applied scholarly study and practice after a lifetime of incidental expertise as just her way, and came up with the term and everything about it as well as the VISION Statement term and everything that comprises a VISION Statement and how it can be indispensable to a company. As she promotes these year after year, they've grown into most industry lexicons. Purchase a product here to see what VISION Strategy can do for your potentials and bottomline!

Attend the VISION Strategy smartMEET May 6, 2026 5:30 until the evening serves and get your FREE VS!. 

From my proposals portfolio of rough sketches including flower box ideas that didn't get adopted 2013

In 1989 a degree was earned for Merchandising Marketing & Managementin the strictly business end of fashion at then Tobe-Coburn. The school was dropping the Wood part of their name and was in Greenwich Village next to Tower Records. It's moved to midtown east and changed its austere course offerings to suddenly include medical training and went back to using 'Wood' now Wood Tobe-Coburn, somehow offering medical in addition to hundreds of added courses not of the Tobe-Coburn School. There were few choice select classes none of which were chosen by students, and they were useful, unique and timeless. Things change.

Loretta started a NYGT VISION Strategy smartMEET (back again this May '26 and beyond yet on hiatus through September '26)   in the old Tobe-Coburn building where when she lived on 13th St between 6th and 7th in what were the more 'upscale'(closest/convenient) of 2 dorm solutions the school gave brochure for, being actually a Salvation Army residence for studying and single women not homeless but able to pay a weekly rent, she had a roommate just arrived from Australia studying modern ballet converting from classical and was typical of the type of serious resident the community and chandelier, glass-enclosed elegant library, doorman building wanted. Running at Washington Square Park at 5 AM, working not 1 but 2 jobs while in college, the demands were high but so are Loretta's standards for effectivity, sensibilities, innovation and delivery. For FREE VISION Strategy that can provide a quick but huge, likely perfect solution to any dilemma, try finding out what the concept is all about at Great Jones Distilling Co. the old building of Loretta's college where in 2023 a 'meet-up' was begun and now after those years a hiatus, can become something for which to even travel if not in NY. The ability to get first-hand business strategy advice from CEO founder Loretta Jones is valuable and in today's world, priceless. There may be imitations but there's no one besides Loretta(let her prove it and don't be fooled by imposters, she has practices that will let you ID them in a NY minute) to provide beneficial VISION Strategy including smartFIT Exercise Classes, 4 or 8-Week smartLEARN VS Series, smartTALKs, smartFIELD trips, smartWALKs plus NYGT Shops & Pods. All proprietary. Like the concept, the coining of the phrase and actually brainstorming a way to bring her strong and unique visual merchandising experience into a corporate consulting business that would lend a bit of 'making the world a better place', when she made up 'VISION Statement' as a thing, versed in business plan writing familiar with Mission Statement, thinking it an integral step in/for any establishment. Look how these several and several years later VISION Statement has taken hold. Prior though, she made up the term VISION Strategy and all its principles and tenets. Consider asking what she can come up with for your company or concerns. Prepare to answer the question "'How's Business' (World)" or since in person, individually since the question in good company invokes instant if not implied, camaraderie..

​Loretta Jones was sole proprietor of her companies until incorporating as CEO/founder of NY Gold Tours, Inc - parent VISION Strategy company of Gold de la Locale, future flagship, spawning precision brands and labels under the NYGT and GDLL distinctions.

From my proposals portfolio of rough sketches including flower box ideas that didn't get adopted 2013

Credentials. Unique talents, skills and proficiencies are of value to acquire by way of the VISION Strategy products and services upon which the NYGT company is based.

A companyin 1998was Visuals Now for which an aol e-mail subscription more than 25 years old is one of many areas that shows customer loyalty where loyalty is a trait and that beginning of the internet is another golden trust.