Karin Ricklin

Karin Ricklin is the founder of WEshare1 GmbH, which she has been topsharing with Stephanie Briner since January 2022. She is a partner of PTO and a member of the Sustainability Council at Thurgauer Kantonalbank with a focus on diversity and equal opportunities. She is also responsible for corporate health management and employer branding in the HR of a larger Swiss institution. Karin holds a Master in Health Psychology from the University of Zurich, is a trained HR leader and stress regulation trainer.

She boasts over 10 years of HR experience in the IT startup scene and in finance. Due to her previous activities in HR as a manager, project leader, lecturer, generalist and subject specialist, she has acquired profound knowledge and has a wide range of experience.

Karin specializes in workplace health management, employer branding and diversity & inclusion. She brings a great interest and passion for job sharing and top sharing (generally flexible working models). She is also interested in topics around knowledge transfer, work-life balance, re-entry, reintegration, gender equality, cooperation and lifelong learning.

With WEshare1, Karin and Stephanie pursue the mission to provide comprehensive information on job sharing and topsharing, to promote the topic in the WEshare1 community and to provide support to individuals as well as companies in implementing job and topsharing – so that people can develop their full potential, in every situation in life.

Karin Ricklin is married and mother of a son. She shares the responsibility for gainful employment, childcare and household with her husband (Topsharing @ home).