The Strategic Doctor is the creation of Dr. Erik Nilssen and Dr. Saif Zaman. They recognize the growing financial hardships facing those in the medical community and realize that physicians needed support.

Doctors are well educated in their field. However, the financial and entrepreneurial strategy they need for success is outside of the scope of their traditional education, which is vast and time-consuming. The structure for financial stability in this field is simultaneously changing. Various regulatory requirements and escalating costs have driven down the profit margin for physicians and healthcare organizations. With more burdens falling to the patient, there has also been a sharp decline in patient compliance making the profession itself high in stress and much lower in financial reward.