Bion Bartning
Bion Bartning is the founder of FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and an entrepreneur and investor.
Bion previously co-founded eos Products, a personal care brand best known today for its iconic egg-shaped lip balm, as an equity partner and Chief Operating Officer of The Kind Group, a privately held company dedicated to the development and expansion of brands.
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Bion's episode appearances
Episode 206: “The Pro-Human Answer to Intolerance & Racism” with Bion Bartning
In this episode I’m joined by Bion Bartning, the founder of FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. An entrepreneur and investor, Bion also co-founded eos Products, a personal care brand best known today for its iconic egg-shaped lip balm. Bion launched FAIR to address head-on the tribalism, identity culture and politics of division that are pitting Americans one against the other. With innocuous terms like diversity, equity and inclusion, or arcane ones like critical race theory, a cynical and intolerant orthodoxy of division is being advocated and enforced throughout America. It’s infected virtually every American institution: colleges, businesses, government, the media, museums and the arts, the military and most alarmingly, our children’s K-12 schools. In schools, “what’s called an “anti-racist” curriculum,” explains Bion, “is in every sense of the word, racist and is teaching children to see themselves fundamentally as defined by the color of their skin, by their immutable characteristics instead of seeing each other as unique individuals who are united by our shared humanity.” What we must be doing instead is to share and teach what it […]
about Bion
Bion Bartning is the founder of FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and an entrepreneur and investor.
Bion previously co-founded eos Products, a personal care brand best known today for its iconic egg-shaped lip balm, as an equity partner and Chief Operating Officer of The Kind Group, a privately held company dedicated to the development and expansion of brands.
Previously, Bion was part of American Express’ Strategic Planning Group, where he conceived of and patented a new multi-channel system for booking travel and led the launch of a new consumer online travel business as Director, New Product Development, partnering with a major online travel agency. The American Express online consumer travel business that Bion launched has since grown to over $4 billion in annual sales.
Bion earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics and environmental studies from Occidental College. He is an avid traveler, with a deep appreciation for cross-cultural understanding and relationships.