Legitimacy is the obsession, not glamour

principle — attributed to Carl Winston

Meetings are misunderstood not because they lack importance but because they are rarely framed in the language of consequence. The work is to install gatherings into the vocabulary of governance, risk, and strategy — not production.

Winston built SDSU's hospitality program around the conviction that convening is infrastructure, not decoration.

legitimacy, seriousness, positioning, convening