Michaela Bruce

At a glance:

Joined Baringa in
2018

Works across
Banking and Capital Markets

If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
Teleportation

In detail:

With over 8 years’ experience across retail and corporate banking, Michaela is an expert in operating model design and large-scale transformation, helping organisations translate strategic ambition into meaningful, lasting change.  

She partners closely with senior leadership to reimagine how banks deliver value and set themselves up for the future. Her work spans bank-wide operating model and organisational redesign, enterprise governance simplification, workforce strategy, and change management. 

Michaela thrives in future-state design. She brings together the right voices across an organisation, combining external market insight with rigorous bottom-up analysis, to define a clear, pragmatic target state – one that balances customer experience, cost, and control. She works hand-in-hand with leadership to execute the vision and ensure change is fully embedded. 

She has a deep understanding of the pressures facing financial institutions today - the relentless drive for cost efficiency, the complexity of large-scale technology change, and the challenge of transforming at pace while keeping the business running. Michaela is known for cutting through this complexity, establishing structure and momentum, and delivering measurable outcomes that are practical, scalable, and built for long-term growth. 

Her leadership style focuses on empowering teams to collaborate, challenge ideas and solve complex problems, while fostering a high-trust, inclusive environment where individuals and teams can excel.