The global or local challenge pitch is the development of a pitch proposing solutions/action on a selected global or local challenge aligned with United Nations Strategic Development Goals. The pitch should demonstrate how the skills, knowledge and approaches discussed in the unit can be synthesized into a realisable, innovative and authentic pitch.  It will include a Dragons Den style live pitch to a panel of funders, VC, government and third sector representatives.  The pitch should be informed by rigorous approaches to research, references to literature and theory and to the insights gained from the experts and their stories covered in the unit content. The pitch is submitted in three parts. First, the action plan outlining your chosen challenge, its alignment with the SDGs and how your group plan to develop a strategic approach to addressing this challenge (week 8). Second, the pitch document and slide deck where the strategic approach to address the chosen challenge is elaborated (week 12). Third, a live presentation of the pitch with a Q&A where every member of the group will be asked a question about the pitch (week 12 and 13).

The personal leadership legacy statement is a short 500-word reflective statement about your own personal ambitions and aspirations for leadership. What skills and experiences do you already have that help your own your journey to developing as a successful leader? How have your experiences of crisis shaped your views on what makes a good leader during a time of crisis? What kind of leader do you want to be when you graduate? How do you plan to develop your skills to become a leader who is crisis-prepared? This should be a personal and reflective story that is informed by the content in the first three weeks of the unit and these stories and approaches covered in the videos and in the first LPC Live event in Week 1.

The leadership portfolio is your opportunity to share the narrative of your journey through the course. Leadership is not an end point, as crises multiply, become polycrises and transition and change into new normals. This portfolio should be worked on during the semester progressively as you complete each LPC Live class. The portfolio should make reference back to the personal leadership legacy statement submitted in week 3 (including the feedback you were provided by the teaching team) and evidence how your understanding of leadership through crisis has changed over the duration of the course. The portfolio should have four sections. Each section should have a short (no more 750 words each section) summary supported by at least three pieces of evidence from the unit one of which must come from the relevant LPC Live session (stories from the content, theory, your engagement with the weekly activities online or in the workshops).

Sections 1-3: Chose three of the four LPC Live topics (Storytelling, ethics and responsibility, disruptive technology and the importance of collective problem solving) and discuss how each of them have influenced your leadership journey, the skills, values, and traits you have acquired or will need to acquire to become a successful leader during your career. It should also integrate theory and practice from the program into your description of what makes a successful leader in a crisis.

Section 4: Leadership legacy then and now. Reflect on the statement you made in your week 3. Through evidence, describe how your thinking about leadership has or has not changed through the unit. At least one piece of evidence should be feedback from a leader you admire, a peer in your class or from another class on your week 3 leadership legacy statement. Good leaders seek feedback from others (especially those who may experience crisis differently from the leader) and incorporate that into their approach)