What is Vets, Stay, Go Diversify all about?
Exploring Potential Together
Our vision is to empower veterinary professionals in their careers to support building sustainable, satisfying careers within and beyond our amazing profession.
How we Serve the Veterinary Community
- Community and resources
- Events and CPD/CE
- Job opportunities
- Career support
- Inspiring Speakers/Facilitators
What's our story?
Vets Stay Go Diversify started as an idea in 2017 to help support veterinary professionals find belonging, explore potential, and see the possibilities in the veterinary field. What initially began as interviews showcasing and celebrating the career paths in vet med and a Facebook group for career support quickly grew into a global community of veterinary professionals cheering one another on.
Listening to our community’s needs, VSGD began offering collaborative events, conferences, and other services to augment connection, learning, and career advancement. Together, we make up the largest community in the world dedicated to career development for veterinary professionals with over 30,000 members from countries all over the world.
Ebony Escalona, Chief of community
Ebony works to craft communities that count and is an equine vet, community strategist, squiggly career advocate and host. She focuses on unlocking people’s potential, shining spotlights on their stories and building confidence in others through her advisory positions with a number of organisations in events, education and not-for-profit sectors such as The Pangolin Project, VDS Training, StreetVet, Millimetres2Mountains, CatNipComms and CloserStillMedia. She is the founder of the online support platform Vets: Stay, Go or Diversify- bringing peer-to-peer inspiration for career pathways and she is also co-founder of VetYou - helping to support the financial future of her community members. Ebony is a published author in the field of gut health and the recipient of the inaugural RCVS Inspiration Award and Liverpool University Alumni awards.
Sandra Milburn, chief of operations
After 10 years working in small animal practice as a vet, Sandra spent 7 years in the charity sector before changing tack during 'Covid times'. She has since diversified, working in the Health and Fitness space as an online personal trainer and nutrition coach, whilst also being a proud member of the VSGD team as a freelancer.