About Us

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Dan Prachar is the founder and managing Partner of Performance Consulting Partners. His experience as an industrial psychologist and work with different consulting firms over 25 years has taken him to 45 countries.   He has experience across industries including oil and gas, construction, mining, chemicals and refining, and transportation.

Each firm Dan worked for had one or two key strengths or focus areas. The focus areas included behavior-based safety (BBS), process improvement, coaching, culture executive assessment, leadership development, human and organizational performance, employee engagement, and serious incidents and fatalities.  Some firms had good content, but their real strength was in making learning, relevant, practical and fun. None of those firms combined all these things, and that is why he founded Performance Consulting Partners. 

Dan is passionate about his work and his clients.  Whether he is working for a Fortune 50 Company or a small family-owned business, he brings pragmatic tools and a commitment to make a difference.  

The foundation for any safety system is caring for people – and as a result you care about the places where they live, the things they own, and so on.  When all your policies, procedures, tools and leadership practices are aligned to that end, you develop an extraordinary culture and a highly engaged workforce.

Safety and efficiency go hand in hand – Caring for people means that their work is safe, and their job is secure. Safe and efficient operations ensure your ability to compete and manage exposure to risk. 

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing – and you can’t have 500 main things!   When resources are scarce or you need to turn things around and get employees engaged, the attention should be centered on work that has Serious Injury or Fatality (SIF) potential. 

Learning should be relevant, fun, and create ownership and action. We use a What, So What, and Now What adult learning approach. 

• Answering the “What” question means people have to understand the topic, free of jargon, abstract theories, or impractical concepts. 
• The “So What” question is about relevance to them. We provide training that is relevant to their work, using pragmatic tools and hands-on learning approaches. We don’t just tell people what to think, we get people in the classroom working in ways that cause the lightbulbs to come on! The get insight into what they can do to ensure that they are operating safely and efficiently. 
• Once people understand the concepts and why they are relevant, it is time for action. “Now What” is about taking the concepts from the classroom to the workplace.