Laura Lee Stewart grew up around the Puget Sound and is familiar with its rhythms, including the way a dense fog can suddenly descend and disrupt the flow of ships and ferries on the water. “The ferry boat slows way down. It doesn’t go on the rocks. It doesn’t drift. It just moves really carefully across the sound,” says Stewart, CEO of $1 billion Sound Financial Bancorp in Seattle. “When you can’t see what’s ahead of you, you have to move more cautiously.” To Stewart, the early months of this Donald Trump presidency have felt a lot like those foggy…

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John Engen is a contributing writer for Bank Director. He has more than 30 years of experience as a business journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in economics and international relations from the University of Minnesota and did his post-graduate work in Asian studies at the University of Hawai’i.