Integrated Training Solutions
ABOUT US
We are a team of consultants and associates with extensive subject matter expertise in the planning, preparation, and execution of defence and security operations. Our collective background spans military, governmental, and specialist operational environments, enabling us to provide informed, experience‑driven guidance across a wide range of strategic, operational and tactical level challenges.
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Meet our Specialist Team
Managing Partner
Paul Dutton
Paul is an ex-Infantry Officer having served in the British Infantry over his 20 years of service. He set up Integrated Training Solutions in 2014 which focusses on training and mentoring of planning. He is an instructor on the Joint Operations Planning Course at Northwood UK to train the United Kingdom’s Operational Level Planners. He has also instructed on the NATO COPD planning process in Romania. Since 2017 he has been running training for the Army, Navy and Air Force Colleges of Nigerian Armed Forces and the Advanced War College in Bangladesh. To date he has delivered Planning Training in countries across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe. He supported the Qatari Armed Forces in their preparation for the World Cup 2022. So far in 2026 he has delivered training packages in West Africa in Senegal, Mauritania, and Ghana. We have also supported the operational level planning packages of the United Kingdom’s Advanced Command and Staff Course and the Moroccan Collège Royal d’Ensignements Superiore (CREMS) in Morocco.
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Partner
Nick short MBE​
Nick served for 38 years in the British Army as an Infantry Officer. Recently retired he is a passionate advocate of critical thinking in planning, avoidance of doctrine dogma and exploring how technology can help planners speed up decision making. He is currently working as a campaign planner and campaign assessments lead in the Ministry of Defence. During his service he has been involved in almost all the military operations the UK has been involved in.From serving in Berlin during the cold war through counter terrorism operations in Northern Ireland, and operational deployments to Bosnia and the Balkans, Central America, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has served at all levels of command both single service and joint as well as serving with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and in a 3* NATO Headquarters. He is a graduate of the United States Joint Advanced Warfighting School which awards a MSc in Campaign planning. He was responsible for delivering the UK’s Joint Operations Planning Course from 2009-2011. From 2017 until 2018 he worked as a joint operational planner embedded in US Central Command working on plans to counter Da’esh. His last position in the military was as head FUOPS in the UK’s 2 * deployable HQ, working closely with US European Command, US Indo Pacific Command and the JEF across a range of contingency and crisis plans and operations during which he led the UK planning to deal with COVID in the UK overseas dependencies. Nick is now a partner in ITS and contributing to the delivery of planning training and strategic to operational thinking across Africa, Europe, the far and Middle East and in support of serving UK military officers both at the Permanent Joint Headquarters, UK Defence Academy and UK Commando forces. Nick is a member of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team and occasionally works as a mountain guide in the Lake District and Scotland getting out into the mountains for both enjoyment and to help people in trouble.
Partner
Tim wordsworth
Tim Wordsworth is a retired Army Officer with 44 years of service in an extensive range of command and staff appointments on national and multinational tours and operations. He left the Regular Army in March 2019 in the rank of Colonel and for the last seven years Tim has been a Partner in ITS (Global). Tim joined the Army as a soldier in 1980 and was commissioned in 1983. He spent his formative years in Germany during the Cold War, which included two tours of Northern Ireland in an infantry, counter insurgency role. In the late 1990s / early 2000s he deployed in peacekeeping roles with NATO in the Balkans, and the United Nations in Cyprus. In 2003, he deployed to Basrah with MND(SE) during the stabilization of Iraq. In 2006, during his time as CO of an MLRS regiment, his unit was deployed uniquely on operations simultaneously in three different theatres: ‘in-role’ in Iraq and Afghanistan; and out-of-role, peacekeeping in Cyprus. In 2011 Tim was assigned to NATO’s Joint Force Command Naples, arriving on commencement of operations to protect civilians in Libya. He ran the J5 Operational Assessment Branch for the operational tour, followed by a stint running the J7 Directorate in the preparation for the HQ’s return-to-role certification. His final three years in the Regular Army was spent on Loan service in Kuwait, as the Director of Studies, Mubarak Al Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College (MAJCSC). He then spent five years in the Reserves and was mobilised in 2020 as the lead planner on Op RESCRIPT, the Military Response to Covid-19 in support of the UK Government. As an instructor / mentor with ITS, in this training year alone, he will have taught Joint Operational Planning to audiences in the UK ranging through the Permanent Joint headquarters, Advanced Command and Staff Course, and central Government; in the same period abroad he has delivered in Romania (teaching the NATO COPD), the Czech Republic, Qatar, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Senegal, Mauritania, Ghana and Morocco.
