Christopher Bylone is the Founder and Principal Strategist of Innovation Unbiased and a fractional Chief Diversity Officer. Before founding Innovation Unbiased, he was Global Head of DEI at International Flavors and Fragrances, where he built the Inclusive Behaviors Framework, and Global Head of Belonging at Krispy Kreme. He is a Certified Diversity Executive.

Christopher Bylone is the Founder and Principal Strategist of Innovation Unbiased and a fractional Chief Diversity Officer. Before founding Innovation Unbiased, he was Global Head of DEI at International Flavors and Fragrances, where he built the Inclusive Behaviors Framework, and Global Head of Belonging at Krispy Kreme. He is a Certified Diversity Executive.

He hosts I Know I Belong When..., where every guest shares one moment they knew they belonged and one moment they knew they did not. He has been publishing a weekly episode since November 2025.

He grew up on a farm in Southern New Jersey, where he learned that belonging is built, season after season, by the people who tend it. He uses the Belonging Formula and the Inclusive Behaviors Framework to give people language and specific actions rather than theory. He writes a LinkedIn newsletter called Someone Had to Say It, which does exactly what the title promises.

He is an openly gay man and a cancer survivor, and he has spoken publicly about his clinical depression diagnosis and his bariatric surgery.

He is the father of two children, one in college and one in high school. After his divorce, he moved from Charlotte to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania to be closer to his younger son. He was able to move, so he did. He lives there with his dog, Stanley, who has never once been asked to prove he belongs.