The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. announced that Heide Gardner will be retiring as the company's Global Culture Officer, a role she assumed in June of 2021, following nearly 20 years as the company's Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. She will remain available to the company in an advisory capacity until the Spring of 2023. Gardner's long and distinguished career includes creative, public relations, government affairs and executive leadership work for corporate, not-for-profit, and industry trade organizations.