Leadership in an event context is hosting.

principle — attributed to Paul Miller

Leadership in this business requires something beyond oversight. It requires hosting. Noticing who is standing alone and bringing them into the room. Understanding that an event is only as strong as the connections it enables. The executive who treats the event as a performance to be reviewed from a distance misreads what is being produced. The one who treats it as an environment they are responsible for has understood the work.

The reframing for organizer executives who treat the show as product rather than as environment.

leadership, hosting, hospitality, event-culture, presence