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Dewani Shebubakar

Dewani Shebubakar

Strategic Design Director, Today

Dewani is a thoughtful, tenacious and curious Strategic Design Director at Today. With over 10 years of experience in design, Dewani has worked in big global and small local agencies and has experience across education, finance, retail, automotive and government sectors. Dewani enjoys making peoples' lives easier and better in creative and impactful ways that empower and involve them.

Dewani’s work on the DELWP Planning Experience Strategy is expected to create a real impact in making planning fairer, more accessible, and more community-focused. Through collaborative efforts with the client and different stakeholders in the Victorian planning community, Dewani was able to bring clarity and reshape the outcome into an ambitious vision, a set of principles, and a roadmap of actionable initiatives.

As a craft director, Dewani is invested in people and supporting them to do the best possible work. Her day-to-day work is varied, from helping her team to unblock immediate problems, co-creating ambitions and identifying opportunities, shaping proposals, reviewing work, jamming with teams to come up with more creative solutions, to meeting new potential clients. She is an eternal learner and will always ask questions. Dewani is rigorous but flexible and equal parts pragmatic and optimistic.