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Ben Tauber

Ben Tauber

Coach, host, founder focused on human and collective potential

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Santa Barbara, California
Joined October 2025
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Leader and organizer in the human‑potential / retreat world: Ben took on executive leadership roles at Esalen Institute (serving as Executive Director/CEO during an operational crisis and as a trustee), reframed programming toward executive and organizational work, and regularly writes and speaks about realizing individual and collective potential. esalen+1
Tech founder and product leader with an engineering background: early career roles included engineering and product leadership at Adobe, co‑founding Scoopler (acquired by Google), and product management at Google on social/communications products — a technical founder-to‑product trajectory that underpins his work coaching founders and leaders. esalen+1
Public communicator and host focused on the frontier topics of human performance: Ben co‑hosts the Becoming Superhuman / Almost Got It podcast, curates conversations about consciousness, AI, and longevity, and uses social platforms to surface ideas at the intersection of technology and human potential. apple+2

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Writing

A New Voice for Esalen: Meet Executive Director Ben Tauber

April 1, 2017

Profile/interview piece describing Tauber's appointment and vision as Esalen's Executive Director, his approach to programming, and his background bridging Silicon Valley and the human potential movement.

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Hobbies

Snowboarding, rock climbing, playing music, meditation, and outdoor adventure with family. benjamintauber+2

Notes

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Dec 1, 2025