Bryan Neuberg
09/15/1973 - 08/23/2024
Bryan James Neuberg of Alameda, California, passed on August 23, 2024 due to complications related to early onset Parkinson's disease. Bryan's soul is surrounded by family and loved ones on his journey.
Bryan was born on September 15, 1973 in McAllen, Texas. 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 pursued a career in executive coaching and leadership development, 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 that provided livelihood for many others and served over 1,000 startup leaders.
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 and skateboarded. 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.
Bryan is survived by his mother, Deanna Neuberg, his grandmother Martha Brogren, his father Alan Neuberg and stepmothers Odile Neuberg and Molly Kristall, his brothers Bradley Neuberg and Ryan Blum-Kryzstal, nephew Elek Blum-Kryzstal, his nieces Cameron Neuberg and Samantha Johnson, sister Steffanie Blum-Johnson, sisters-in-law Abby Neuberg and Jordana DeLory, Uncle Paul Knopf, Uncle Bob Bourgeois, Aunt Tina Bourgeois, Cousin Leah Carolyn Knopf-Reyes and David Reyes, Cousin Courtney Mount and Colton Mount, and Nephew Joshua Walters.
More details on Bryan's memorial date, memorial fund, and leaving messages for him can be found on his memorial website:
https://everloved.com/life-of/bryan-james-neubergPublished by San Francisco Chronicle on Sep. 3, 2024.