About Reazul Islam

Senior Product and Growth Strategy Consultant helping organizations turn customer insight into products, platforms, and growth systems that improve engagement, retention, and revenue.

I'm Reazul Islam, a senior product and growth strategist with 10+ years of experience leading product innovation, platform strategy, AI/GenAI adoption, and commercial execution across EdTech, HealthTech, SaaS, and hospitality.

My work sits at the intersection of three things many organizations struggle to hold together: deep user insight, rigorous product strategy, and commercial execution. I do not just help teams build roadmaps. I help build the business case behind them, align stakeholders around them, and stay accountable to the revenue, retention, and engagement outcomes they are supposed to drive.

I've led product and growth work across a 40M-user K–12 LMS at Pearson, a clinician education and practice management platform at SimplePractice, and a $20M+ ARR dental CE and learning portfolio at Spear Education. Alongside my product leadership work, I've spent six years as the founding Head of Strategy and Growth for a premium hospitality brand, scaling revenue 8.3x through positioning, pricing redesign, and customer experience innovation.

Through Nexr Consulting, I advise SaaS, digital health, EdTech, AI, and service organizations on product strategy, discovery, prototyping, AI/GenAI adoption, growth strategy, and fractional product leadership.

My Operating Framework: DPMF

I'm the author of the Data-Driven Product Management Framework, or DPMF, a structured approach to evidence-based product strategy refined across a decade of building products in complex, high-stakes environments. DPMF helps teams connect customer discovery, product data, market context, business goals, and execution planning into one clear strategy.

DPMF-AI extends the framework into AI and GenAI product development, helping teams identify practical AI use cases, validate workflows, prototype responsibly, and connect AI adoption to measurable business outcomes.

Key Strengths

What I bring to every engagement

Product Strategy That Connects to Business Outcomes

I translate customer insight, market evidence, and product data into strategies, roadmaps, and business cases that teams can execute.

Growth Strategy Across Engagement, Retention, and Revenue

I focus on the product and commercial levers that improve adoption, renewal, monetization, and long-term growth.

AI/GenAI Strategy With Practical Execution

I help teams identify where AI can create real value, not just where it sounds impressive.

Cross-Functional Leadership

I align product, engineering, design, marketing, sales, operations, curriculum, and executive stakeholders around clear priorities.

Impact Highlights

  • $9M+ ARR growth and 28% renewal improvement through platform innovation at Spear Education
  • $2M–$17M incremental ARR roadmap validated and aligned with C-suite leadership at SimplePractice
  • $300M+ enterprise contract renewal influenced through K–12 LMS platform improvements at Pearson
  • 8.3x revenue growth and 42% CAGR delivered for a premium hospitality business
  • 30+ product innovations launched across B2C, B2B, B2B2C, EdTech, HealthTech, SaaS, and service businesses