Industry Activities (Upcoming):

Guest Speaker invitations for the West Coast Songwriter Association and Breaking Into Hollywood, both in September 2009, were regretfully cancelled due to travel conflicts.

Industry Activities (Prior)

Traveling to the Gold Coast of Australia October 5-11, 2008 with 5 top US songwriters to participate in panels and conduct lyrics class for The Very Best of the U.S. in Oz Songwriting and Performance Workshop. Organized by Alan Roy Scott for Music Bridge http://www.usinoz.org/. Other participants include Wendy Waldman, Gary Nicholson, Michael Jay, Harold Payne and John Mandeville
Traveling to Denmark November 2-17, 2008 to tour the country conducting several songwriting seminars. Tour is sponsored by Danish Performing Rights Organization KODA, and organized by Brett Perkins. Targeted to Music Conservatories and songwriter organizations.
Individual one-on-one Songwriter Mentoring sessions, ASCAP Expo 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 at the Radisson Hotel, Hollywood, CA.
Judging the IMTA Talent contest, singer branch, 2007, 2008, 2009 New York, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Los Angeles
Judging Best New Talent Awards, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, Los Angeles
Conducting IMTA's Seminar For Singers, 2007, 2008, 2009 in New York, and Los Angeles, along with Michael Jay, Stevi Meredith and Barbara Epstein http://imta.com/
Co-writing with several major Artist-Songwriters coming to L.A. in the Danish Invasion, March-April 2007
Traveling with songwriter delegates from NSAI to Washington DC May 21-23, 2007, to participate in lobbying Congress for Songwriter Rights, conducted by Bart Herbison, Executive Director of NSAI http://nashvillesongwriters.com/
Guest Speaker for Songsalive, both 2009 and 2006
http://www.songsalive.org/speakers.html
Guest Enrichment Lecturer on the Norwegian Cruise Lines "Dawn" November 25-December 2, 2007, on the topic "Making Every Moment Count"

Industry Activities (Highlights):

Staff Songwriter at Rondor Music, 5 years
Member of the Board of National Academy of Songwriters, 2 terms
Member of ASCAP’s Writer and Publisher Advisory Board
Writer participant in "Music Speaks Louder Than Words" - Soviet Songwriter Summit in Tallin, Moscow, Leningrad, Helsinki
As a faculty member of UCLA Extension, in Los Angeles, California, Pamela Phillips Oland taught Advanced Lyric Writing for 8 years. Many of her students went on to become successful Music Industry professionals.
Teaching and lecturing and helping individual songwriters to attain their personal best, including in-depth lyric evaluations, at countless venues over a period of 20 years
2002 and 2004 - Participating songwriter in the Oneness Songwriters Summit celebrating Racial Unity through Music & The Arts
Learning Annex L.A. – Fall 2001 class
5 year Staff Songwriter Almo Irving / Rondor Music
1 year full-time JingleWriter for Dynamic Productions.

Guest Lectures on Songwriting:

Individual one-on-one Songwriter Mentoring, ASCAP Expo 2006, Hollywood, CA
San Francisco State University
Northern California Songwriters' Assn. (3X)
Arizona Songwriters' Association(2X)
9-L.A. Songwriters' Showcase EXPO's
National Academy of Songwriters
San francisco state university
Songwriters Showcase of the Pacific (Honolulu)
Las Vegas Songwriter's Assn.
Northern California Women In Film Festival
Independent Music Conference Utah Songwriters' Association
Nashville Songwriters' Assn. International - conducted Summer Master Class and Spring Seminar
Dallas Songwriters Assn.
Austin SongwritersGroup
Expo West -- SOCAN's annualseminar in Vancouver, B.C.
Sandhill Literary Conference,Augusta State University (March 1999)