Arran Elkeles MA, Ch.FCIPD, and a CEDR Accredited Mediator is the managing director of Kelear Consulting.
Having qualified as a barrister, Arran’s career has covered law, employment law training, human resources, business and policy development for Government.  She has experience of both public and private sectors and of working at Board level.

Arran set up Kelear Consulting in 2005, having spent the previous five years as Legal Consultant to the Aikin Driver Partnership (employment law specialists) and five years prior to that as a Personnel Director at the Building Research Establishment.

She has worked as a lawyer and policy administrator in the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now Ministry of Justice) and with the senior judiciary and Government Ministers. She has also worked as a prosecutor for the South Wales Police Authority.

For some years she was joint Chairman and Managing Director of her family’s company in the manufacturing sector.

She has contributed to Consult GEE published by Thomson, to Employment Law for People Managers published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and also written for the Industrial Society and the Work Foundation.

Arran is a Member of Employment Tribunals, a Governor of a Community Technology College in Hertfordshire, a volunteer mediator for Mediation Hertfordshire and a Friend of the Royal College of Physicians.