After the event, the real leaders are the ones stacking chairs.

Running an event has a visible half and an invisible one. The visible half has an audience, and plenty of people are happy to be in it. The invisible half is forty minutes later with four people, a pile of chairs and nobody left to impress, and who is still standing there tells you who was in it for the work. Titles are handed out in the first half and earned in the second.

Stay twenty minutes past the end of the next thing you go to. Ask what still needs doing and do that.