Successful principals attend HOW magazine’s Mind Your Own Business Conference, the only business retreat tailored exclusively for owners of design and creative-service firms.

Join them at next year's event, and you too will rival the competition. In sessions led by topnotch consultants and discussions shared with likeminded principals, you’ll discover proven strategies to strengthen your business.

Here's a look at the 2008 Conference agenda:

Thursday, September 25

2:30 - 5:00 pm	Registration
5:00 - 6:30 pm	Opening Keynote: Passion, Personality & Ideology: Are You Really What You Sell? | Blair Enns
6:30 - 7:30 pm	Happy Hour -- Sponsored by The Creative Group

Friday, September 26

8:00 - 8:50 am	Breakfast Roundtables
9:00 - 10:15 am	Revolutionizing Your Client Relations | Darryl Salerno
10:45 - 12:00 pm	Rethinking the Rainmaker: Your Role in New Business Development | Blair Enns
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Sustainability: Effecting Change One Project at a Time | Neenah Paper
2:00 - 3:15 pm	The Power of Benchmarking (small firms) | Rick Gould	The Right Staff (large firms) Katherine Spencer Lee
3:45 - 5:00 pm	The Power of Benchmarking (large firms) | Rick Gould	The Right Staff (small firms) Katherine Spencer Lee
5:00 pm	Dinner on Your Own · Evening Free

Saturday, September 27

8:00 - 8:50 am	Breakfast Roundtables
9:00 - 10:15 am	Developing a Strategic Plan for Growth | Ed Fiander and Linda Rappaport
10:45 am - 12:00 pm	Persuasive Presentations | Darryl Salerno
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch on Your Own
2:00 - 3:15 pm	From the Trenches: In-Depth Group Roundtables Diversity in the Workplace with Ed Fiander and Linda Rappaport Finding and Hiring the Best Talent for Your Firm with Megan Slabinski How We Specialized Our Firm and Lived to Tell About It with Adam and Beryt Nisenson Rethinking Pro Bono Work: Doing Good and Doing Well with Chad Crouch Smart E-Marketing for Creative Firms with Brooks Bell Succession Planning with Rick Gould What the Heck is a Leader, Anyway? with Steve Morris
3:45 - 5:00 pm	Interactive Panel Discussion | Ed Fiander, Linda Rappaport, Darryl Salerno and Katherine Spencer Lee
5:00 - 6:15 pm	Happy Hour
6:30 - 7:45 pm	Keynote: Leading with Your Creativity | Donna Karlin
7:45 pm	Dinner on Your Own · Evening Free

Sunday, September 28

9:00 - 12:00 pm	Lightning Rounds | Donna Karlin
9:00 - 12:00 pm	Sponsor Demos
9:00 - 5:00 pm	Informal Brainstorming and Planning Meetings