Bryan James Neuberg (Hebrew name: Israel Ben Abraham Rabinowitz) of Alameda, California, passed away on August 23, 2024 due to complications related to early onset Parkinson’s disease. He passed a few weeks prior to what would have been his 51st birthday. Bryan’s soul is surrounded by family and loved ones on his journey.

Born on September 15, 1973 in McAllen, Texas, Bryan was a beloved son, grandson, brother, nephew, cousin, uncle, business partner, change agent, friend, and husband. He touched the lives of many with his profound sense of humor, warmth, creativity, curiosity, and gregarious, outgoing nature. Bryan was a generous friend and possessed an uncanny ability to connect to just about anyone. He possessed a brilliant mind, disarming wit, and an empathetic heart. He had a rare gift of building community wherever he found himself.

Bryan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin on The Dean’s List and Summa Cum Laude, with a degree in Mathematics as well as a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Antioch University in Seattle; Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from the Co-Active Training Institute and an Advanced Certificate in Existential Psychology from the Gestalt Institute of Psychology, San Francisco.


Bryan went on to pursue a career in executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational change management, eventually co-founding the coaching firm, Neuberg & Gore - a leading coaching firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He led business leaders to the deepest parts of themselves. He built trust, and could reach people in very rare, vulnerable and tender ways. His legacy has left a significant positive impact in the startup community in the San Francisco Bay Area, resulting in a leadership coaching firm, Neuberg Gore, that provided livelihood for many others and served over 1,000 startup leaders. A part of the company’s charter states:

“We are in service of supporting harmonious and sustainable relationships, consciousness, and being illuminated by Spirit among our team, everyone we touch, humanity, and the earth.”

Bryan’s personal mission was to create a sustainable and unified world by helping himself and others transform. He fulfilled this mission and his mission continues.

Bryan was passionate about music, particularly Hip-Hop in all of its forms - but also Jazz, Heavy Metal, Thrash, Punk Rock, Drum-n-Bass, Country-Western, and Tejano/Norteño, except for the Grateful Dead, which he heavily disliked. Bryan’s versatility and eclecticism allowed him to connect with people from all walks of life, cultures, and social classes. He and his mother, Deanna, often had “Listening Parties” on FaceTime and Bryan would enlighten her about a variety of musical genres.

Bryan is survived by his mother, Deanna Robins Neuberg, his grandmother Martha Andreen Robins Brogren, his father Alan Morris Neuberg and stepmothers Odile Coindreau Neuberg, Molly Kristall, his brothers Bradley Keith Neuberg and Ryan Blum-Kryzstal, nephew Elek Blum-Kryzstal, his nieces Cameron MacKenzie-Morse Neuberg and Samantha Johnson, sister Steffanie Blum-Johnson, sisters-in-law Abby Volk Neuberg and Jordana DeLory, Uncle Paul Knopf, Uncle Bob Bourgeois, Aunt Tina Bourgeois, Cousin Leah Carolyn Knopf- Reyes and David Reyes, Cousin Courtney Andreen Mount and Colton Mount, Uncle Richard Neuberg, Aunt Zvia Altus Neuberg and Cousin Danny Neuberg, and Nephew Joshua Walters - all who will forever cherish his memory.

Bryan was predeceased by grandfathers Ira Rabinowitz Robins, Robert Brogren, Milton Neuberg, grandmother Helen Neuberg, Aunt Deborah Robins-Knopf, Uncle Scott Haskell Neuberg, Uncle Manfred Gustav Andreen, his childhood dog Suni, and his Spiritual Guide and favorite Great-Grandfather, Rabbi Abraham Rabinowitz, who is with Bryan now on his journey.

From his earliest days, Bryan Neuberg was a rebel; a force of nature who lived many rich and varied lives. In his hometown McAllen, Texas he joined an early breakdancing crew when he was 8 years old in 1984. He also was an outstanding Skateboarder and McAllen Country Club’s star High Board Swimming Diver. In high school he enjoyed playing the saxophone. In his early teens in the late 1980’s he was the lead singer of ‘Disgust’, a pioneering hard core punk rock band that invigorated the local music scene, inspiring generations of young musicians.

In the 1990’s he discovered environmental and social activism and raised over $80,000 as a door-to-door canvasser for the Sierra Club and the Human Rights Campaign. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s he developed his skills as a beat-boxer - the ability to imitate drum machines with one’s voice - and found himself touring through Southeast Asia performing with Joey Boy, The “Godfather of Thailand’s Hip-Hop”. Locally in the Bay Area he co-founded the beat-box collective known as the Vowel Movement, which galvanized the best and brightest of the Bay Area hip-hop and poetry slam community. He did all of this before he started his coaching firm. His eclectic life and diverse experiences prepped a foundation for a life of adaptability, creative spontaneity, and depth.

As a kid Bryan loved climbing trees at his home on Broadway Circle, in McAllen, Texas. He would climb on the roof and look at the stars through his telescope.

Bryan was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s disease around five years ago. In that time he engaged in a battery of care procedures and interventions. He worked tenaciously to live and thrive.

A gathering to honor and celebrate Bryan will be announced on his memorial website in the near future, targeting either Saturday October 5th or Sunday October 6th depending on venue availability. We invite family and friends to join us in remembering and celebrating his life by posting on his memorial website. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to his memorial fund to support Bryan’s niece, nephew, and cousins and in creating commemorative plaques at places he loved such as Harbin Hot Springs, Wilbur Hot Springs, and Archimedes Banya. Donations can be made at Bryan’s memorial website. If there are questions or comments you can email us at honoringbn@gmail.com.

Bryan’s memorial website: https://everloved.com/life-of…

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