When I was a team lead, I rarely was in meetings. About 60% of my time was coding, the rest was reviewing others' work, giving direct technical guidance to team members, and answering questions from upper management. Typically upper management communicated asynchronously and didn't pull me into meetings on a daily basis.

An organization that has a team lead constantly in meetings is horribly mismanaged; and is looking for a talking head to boost someones' ego.